Sadikou Oukpedjo - Paris : FIAC 2020

22 October - 23 December 2020

Discover the universe of Sadikou Oukpedjo in this video recorded in his Studio in Bingerville, Côte d'Ivoire in July 2020.
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Galerie Cécile Fakhoury (Abidjan, Dakar, Paris) is pleased to present for the first time in France a new set of works by the Togolese artist Sadikou Oukpedjo. This set of works initially conceived for the FIAC will be exhibited in the gallery's showroom in the 6th arrondissement of Paris until 27 November 2020.

Visit by appointment from Monday to Friday, from 10am to 7pm.
Contact: Francis Corabœuf, director - francis@cecilefakhoury.com - +33 6 62 42 74 54
The gesture and expressiveness of Sadikou Oukpedjo are driven by doubts and apprehensions of the world as he sees it. For him, the animal world is a source of essential questioning for man humans to find his place in our societies, at the risk to lose sight of certain values, traditions and precepts of nature.
His representations are filled with and penetrated by the invisible and its power, by the unknown and the hidden. Man analyses the world, models the nature, tries to know the secrets which one will be able to use. He is a magician, a master, an illusionist, a savant, when the essence of live inevitably transforms itself and transcends the world of ideas.
The pastel on paper, the monumental outdoor sculptures, the imposing canvas, the engravings, the ceramics and the carved stones reflect an interior state, in the tortuous silence of one's own self. This morphological anatomical study relates to the spiritual.

The creature that Sadikou Oukpedjo gives existence to, in his works, constitutes a record of the human conscience, crossed by the issue of its primary origin, leading towards an uncertain future.
The dual presence of shapes and materials contributes to the intensity of Sadikou Oukpedjo’s large canvases : a space to show, tell and reflect. There are outpourings (of sympathy or pain). Above all there are mysteries, secret rituals, hidden things and the inexplicable. A whole mythology is at work behind the image, full of hybrid animals and enigmatic figures. In the face of death, do animals have a soul ?

Excerpt of "The Animal that I am", by Seloua Luste Boulbina, Exhibition catalogue Silentium

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Worklist
- Sadikou Oukpedjo, Naissance d'un dieu inconnu, Mixed media on canvas, 190 x 90 cm, 2020
- Sadikou Oukpedjo, Combat illégitime, mixed media on canvas, 190 x 90 cm, 2020
- Sadikou Oukpedjo, Poisson, je t'aurai, mixed media on canvas, 153 x 59 cm, 2020
- Sadikou Oukpedjo, Allaitement, mixed media on canvas, 170 x 77 cm, 2020
- Sadikou Oukpedjo, Juge-moi, mixed media on paper, 160 x 95 cm, 2020
- Sadikou Oukpedjo, La fausse pomme de Dieu, mixed media on canvas, 185 x 122 cm, 2020
- Sadikou Oukpedjo, L'aventure d'un autre Dieu, mixed media on paper, 200 x 220 cm, 2018
  
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- Sadikou Oukpedjo, Transition #8, engraving and acrylic painting on mirror, 90 cm, 2019
  
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- Sadikou Oukpedjo, Transition #6, engraving and acrylic painting on mirror, 90 cm, 2019
  
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- Sadikou Oukpedjo, Transition #5, engraving and acrylic painting on mirror, 90 cm, 2019
  
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- Sadikou Oukpedjo, Trinité, mixed media on paper, 108 x 105 cm, 2017
- Sadikou Oukpedjo, La Symphonie de Dieu, mixed media on paper, 87 x 108 cm, 2020
- Sadikou Oukpedjo, Ce jaune qui m'appartient, mixed media on paper, 152,5 x 107 cm, 2017
- Sadikou Oukpedjo, Ces hommes qui ne parlent plus, mixed media on paper, 109 x 78,5 cm, 2020
  
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- Sadikou Oukpedjo, Mon moi (diptych), mixed media on paper, 116 x 107 cm each, 2017

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