Ernest Dükü will present MasKArade @ ANANZE Explorer, his first solo exhibition in Africa, from March 9 to May 12, 2018 at the LouiSimone Guirandou Gallery. Let’s discover him in few words.
Born in Bouaké in Côte d’Ivoire, he studied at INSAAC at the School of Fine Arts in Abidjan. He continued his studies at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris. Then he studied Aesthetics and Sciences of Art at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne and after that he learned Interior Architecture.
His creative work is an interrogation to what he calls “the unspoken ones that clutter our memories”
Ernest Dükü articulates his work by convening a set of symbols, ideograms drawn in African mythology or ancient Egypt, in his childhood very marked by the learning of Akan symbols, in his readings and his observations of the contemporary world. These different artifacts, once assembled, give a pictorial result waltzing between 2 and 3 dimensions with works straddling between painting and sculpture. That’s why he names his work “sculpted painting”.
Ernest Dükü questions us about issues related to memory, identity – in a reading of postcolonial cultures – and core issues about history and animists and monotheists religions. An invitation to understand his works as places of divergence and convergence of viewpoints.
En savoir plus, en français :
- Le Saviez-Vous : Découvrons Ernest Dükü
- Ernest Dükü, un des artistes ivoiriens les mieux connus à l’international
- Ernest Dükü au Salon Zürcher Africa
- Exposition « L’Or des Akan »
- Simone Guirandou N’Diaye: portrait d’une promotrice des arts contemporains
- Le Saviez-vous ? : Découvrons Simone Guirandou N’Diaye
- A Abidjan, Simone Guirandou, figure de proue de la promotion des arts contemporains
- Exposition « African Corner » de Dossou Otovi-Yovo de mai à juin 2016
- Exposition « No Border » de Méné et Leslie Lumeh de avril à juillet 2016
- Exposition « Fil Rouge » de Nu Barreto de octobre à novembre 2016
- Exposition « Babitopie » de Jean Servais Somian et Ana Zulma de décembre 2016 à janvier 2017
- Exposition « Signes de Pouvoir » de Charly d’Almeida en mars 2017
- Exposition « Brut Local » de Issa Diabaté et Hien Macrline décembre 2017 à février 2018
En savoir plus, en anglais :
- Did You know? : Let’s discover Ernest Dükü
- Simone Guirandou N’Diaye: portrait of a promoter of contemporary arts
- Did you know? : Let’s discover Simone Guirandou N’Diaye
- No Border, an exhibition that highlights the mobility issue