The Ettore Fico Museum is presenting Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux’s first solo exhibition from Thursday, March 8 to Sunday, June 30, 2024.
This exhibition is part of a global programming of five simultaneous solo shows of important afrodescendant artists, from Africa and the Caribbean : Bouvy Enkobo, Victor Fotso Nyie, Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux, Salifou Lindou and James Mishio.
The five exhibitions are intended to provide an overview and focus on new generations developing research, especially in the figurative, pictorial and sculptural fields. All the unpublished works are presented for the first time in a museum in Italy and most of them were created especially for this appointment. Five monographic volumes will be edited for the occasion and enclosed in a single boxed set although their existence will be autonomous and independent from the others. The invited artists have as their dominant theme and poetics in their works the human figure and particularly the portrait. They are often self-portraits in which the artist plays different characters, becoming an actor and protagonist of the work, but also a paradigm of a reality that can be extended to the entire black community, whether they live in Africa, Europe or other countries. The works are all of large format, as if to assert an even stronger presence, socially and politically, and propose real life according to the artist's personal poetics, intimately linked to the reality experienced in his everyday life. Political problems, family ties, social presences, common affections and stories are illustrated with a peculiar pictorial trait and aesthetic autonomy that, while starting from internationally established stylistic features, are unmistakably linked to the Great Continent and black reality.
