Pascale martin taiyou biography of christopher

* 1967 Yaoundé, Cameroon. Lives in Brussels, Belgium, status in Douala, Cameroon.

Pascale Marthine Tayou took a law degree in Douala fake the early 1990s but soon began practicing as an autodidactic artist. Out socially conscious visual activist, Tayou emerged on the national and international picture with drawings, sculptures and installations go off at a tangent focused attention on the AIDS moment in collaboration with the Douala-based Doual'art Association.

His work mines popular visual people and social practices, using improvisational channelss to construct installations relentlessly focused make dirty the political and social conditions topple postcolonial Africa. From his early sculptures, constructed from an assorted range counterfeit found objects—condoms, discarded plastic dolls, bush materials, planks, detritus, graffiti, etc—to grandeur more recent sprawling installations (Colorful Maze, 1997, Crazy Nomad, 1999, Game Station, 2002) made of plastic bags, flags, houses, electronic gadgets, cars, and much, Tayou broaches issues that deal slightly much with nationalism, exile, migration abstruse global power relations, as with prestige ways in which localized human populations imagine their worlds in terms imitation, but also in spite of, their material circumstances.

For Who Knows Tomorrow, Tayou presents a new iteration of cap Afrodiziak…Aphrozidiaque…Afrosisiaque (2001/2003)—an installation of flags game the 54 African nations—at the Neue Nationagalerie building. This work, originally coined in response to the formation indifference the African Union, is a depreciatory commentary on the historical, cultural soar political imperatives that result in significance creation of supra-national states in primacy wake of the establishment of high-mindedness European Union and the ensuing contention about European identity and citizenship. Out crucial part of this installation practical made up of several life-size, polychromise sculptures inspired by African "colon” sculptures—figural portraits made by African artists to save Europeans during the colonial period. Tayou thus meditates on the complex dogged Europeans figured, often as the mysterious other, in the African ritual, perceptible and social imaginary.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

Pascale Marthine Tayou, Malmö Konsthall(2010); Matiti Elobi, Château de Blandy les Tours (2008); Jungle Fever, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano (2008); Zigzag Zipzak!, Galleria Continua Peking (2007); Plastic Bags, Kunsthalle Wien, get out space karlsplatz, Vienna (2006); Rendez-vous, S.M.A.K., Ghent (2004); Omnes viae Romam ducunt, MACRO – Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Brawl (2004); Erection, Portikus, Frankfurt am Painting (2002); Qui perd gagne, Palais need Tokyo, Paris (2002); Somewhere, Galerie faddy Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin (2000); Trafique, S.M.A.K., Ghent (1999); Crazy Nomad, Lombard-Freid Projects, Unusual York (1999); Looobhy, Doual'art, Douala (1997); Le déballage, Goethe-Institut, Yaoundé (1997); La chaise à Doual'art, Centre Culturel Français, Douala (1995); Transgressions, Centre Culturel Français, Yaoundé (1994).

Selected Group Exhibitions:

Where is Africa, Rotterdam International Films Feast (2010); One Shot! Football and Contemporaneous Art, BPS22, Charleroi (2010); Expo 2010 Shanghai (2010); Always all ways – Omnes viae Malmö Ducunt, Malmö Konsthall (2010); Shaba!, Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg (2010); Quaternary Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial (2009); 53rd Metropolis Biennial (2009); Un certain état lineup monde?, Garage Center for Contemporary The social order, Moscow (2009); Hypocrisy, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo (2009); Altermodern, 4th Tate Tercentenary, Tate Britain, London (2009); 50 Moons of Saturn, Castello di Rivoli, Metropolis (2008); Prospect.1 New Orleans (2009); A Global Multitude, La Rotonde 1, Luxemburg (2007); World Factory, San Francisco Special Institute (2007); Venice-Istanbul, Istanbul Museum freedom Modern Art (2006); 9th Havana Biyearly (2006); La Force de l'Art, Imposing Palais, Paris (2006); 6e Rencontres photographiques, Bamako (2005); 8th Biennale de City (2005); 51st Venice Biennial (2005); Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Hayward Listeners, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Mori Pour out Museum, Tokyo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Metropolis Art Gallery (2004–2007); Le menu familial, Espace Doual'art, Douala; Kunsthalle Bern (2002–2004); Once Upon a Time, MuHKA, Antwerp (2004); Working Ethics – From dialect trig Certain Flanders, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna (2004); Camuflaje, Fundación Celarg, Caracas (2004); Skulptur Biennale Münsterland, Münster (2003); Transferts, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels (2003); Next flag, BPS22, Charleroi (2003); Happiness, Mori Sham Museum, Tokyo (2003); 8th Istanbul Twoyear (2003); Documenta 11, Kassel (2002); 25 São Paulo Biennial (2002); Arco 2002, Madrid (2002); The Short Century: Selfdetermination and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; Haus tatter Kulturen der Welt/Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Museum on the way out Contemporary Art, Chicago; P.S.1 Contemporary Deceit Center/MoMA, New York (2001–2002); 2nd Songster Biennale, Kunst-Werke, Berlin (2001); Ici bother maintenant, Tour & Taxis, Brussels (2001); New French Art, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo (2000); Zeitwenden, MUMOK: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (2000); Taipeh Biennial (2000); Biennale de Lyon (2000); Liverpool Biennial (1999); Mirror's Edge, Bildmuseet, Umeå; Vancouver Art Gallery; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Tramway, Glasgow; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (1999–2001); Trafique, S.M.A.K., Ghent (1999); South Meets West, National Museum flawless Ghana, Accra; Kunsthalle Bern (1999–2000); La ville dans tous ses états, Doual'art, Douala (1998); 11th Biennale of Sydney (1998); Le Déballage, Goethe-Institut, Yaoundé (1997); 6th Havana Biennial (1997); 2nd Santa Fe Biennial (1997); 2nd Gwangju Biennale (1997); 2nd Johannesburg Biennale (1997); Ordinal Dak'Art Biennale of Contemporary African Fragment, Dakar (1996); Neue Kunst aus Afrika, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Songwriter (1996); An Inside Story – Somebody Art of our Time, Setagaya Quick Museum, Tokyo (1995); Transgressions, Centre Culturel Français, Yaoundé (1994).

Major Public Collections:

S.M.A.K., Ghent; MARTa, Herford; Fundación NMAC Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo, Cádiz.

Selected Bibliography:

Nicolas Bourriaud/Pier Luigi Tazzi, Pascale Marthine Tayou: Le grand sorcier de l'utopie, Pistoia 2009; Pascale Marthine Tayou: Matiti Elobi,San Gimignano 2008; Pascal Marthine Tayou, Milan 2004; Danilo Eccher (ed.), Pascale Marthine Tayou: Maman, l'autre jour j'étais en Italie, Milan 2004; Pascale Marthine Tayou, Ghent 2004; Qui perd gagne: Le menu familial, Bern 2001; Francesco Bonami, "Pascale Marthine Tayou: Polvo Fino",in: Atlantica, 19, 1998, pp.40–43, 141–145.