On the occasion of its next Contemporary African Art vacation, on Wednesday 7 October at 6 pm, PIASA offers collectors a textile work by the Malian artist Abdoulaye Konaté (born in 1953).
Abdoulaye Konaté (born 1953) has always lived and worked in Mali. His favourite material is textiles, which he gets printed by the Bamako dyers and processed into strips sewn on increasingly large surfaces.
One of his latest productions (12.37m x 11m) was installed in the building of the new Museum of Contemporary African Art, the Zeit MOCAA in Cape Town. Mountaineers were mobilised to hang it, Ideograms, signs, symbols and logos - Tribute to Youssouf Tata Cissé and Germaine Dieterlen - 12 February 2020/11 January 2021.
It is made of thin, flat strips of dyed cotton, where warm and dry colours mix, deployed in moving waves, creating a cosmic space due to a subtle work of kinetic vibrations. His approach is based on a sculptural practice and execution processes that respond to the specific constraints of the medium being employed. The question of vision, tradition and deciphering, of the universal is at the centre of all his work. The canvas becomes a container, it does not imitate reality but transfigures it by subtracting it from the inert. The induced rhythm reveals the singular quality of its presence in the world.
Abdoulaye Konaté (born 1953, Mali)
Bleu au cercle rouge et jaune, 2018
Estimate : 15000 / 25000 €
Abdoulaye Konaté is an artist committed to the development of art in his country and in Africa. He was Head of the Exhibition Division at the National Museum of Mali from 1985 to 1997, then Director of the Bamako Photographic Encounters and founded the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers Multimédias Balla Fasséké Kouyaté.
Joëlle Busca
