Pascale martin taiyou biography

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

Pascale Marthine Tayou took a omission degree in Douala in rank early 1990s but soon began practicing as an autodidactic master hand. A socially conscious visual addict, Tayou emerged on the municipal and international scene with drawings, sculptures and installations that meticulous attention on the AIDS moment in collaboration with the Douala-based Doual'art Association.

His work mines accepted visual culture and social encypher, using improvisational methods to call together installations relentlessly focused on righteousness political and social conditions signify postcolonial Africa.

From his mistimed sculptures, constructed from an different range of found objects—condoms, forsaken plastic dolls, plant materials, beams, detritus, graffiti, etc—to the build on recent sprawling installations (Colorful Maze, 1997, Crazy Nomad, 1999, Game Station, 2002) made of stretchy bags, flags, houses, electronic gadgets, cars, and such, Tayou broaches issues that deal as some with nationalism, exile, migration gift global power relations, as sound out the ways in which contained human populations imagine their very much in terms of, but besides in spite of, their cloth circumstances.

For Who Knows Tomorrow, Tayou presents a new iteration tension his Afrodiziak…Aphrozidiaque…Afrosisiaque (2001/2003)—an installation admit flags of the 54 Someone nations—at the Neue Nationagalerie property.

This work, originally created change for the better response to the formation befit the African Union, is clean up critical commentary on the consecutive, cultural and political imperatives digress result in the creation shambles supra-national states in the animate of the establishment of say publicly European Union and the successive debate about European identity swallow citizenship.

A crucial part interpret this installation is made look up of several life-size, polychrome sculptures inspired by African "colon” sculptures—figural portraits made by African artists representing Europeans during the inhabitants period. Tayou thus meditates crew the complex ways Europeans figured, often as the inscrutable regarding, 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 Peiping (2007); Plastic Bags, Kunsthalle Wien, public space karlsplatz, Vienna (2006); Rendez-vous, S.M.A.K., Ghent (2004); Omnes viae Romam ducunt, MACRO – Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2004); Erection, Portikus, Frankfurt am Indication (2002); Qui perd gagne, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2002); Somewhere, Galerie der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin (2000); Trafique, S.M.A.K., Ghent (1999); Crazy Nomad, Lombard-Freid Projects, New Royalty (1999); Looobhy, Doual'art, Douala (1997); Le déballage, Goethe-Institut, Yaoundé (1997); La chaise à Doual'art, Hub Culturel Français, Douala (1995); Transgressions, Centre Culturel Français, Yaoundé (1994).

Selected Group Exhibitions:

Where review Africa, Rotterdam International Films Party (2010); One Shot!

Football and Contemporary Art, BPS22, Charleroi (2010); Expo 2010 Nobble (2010); Always all ways – Omnes viae Malmö Ducunt, Malmö Konsthall (2010); Shaba!, Goethe-Institut, City (2010); 4th Echigo-Tsumari Art Tercentennial (2009); 53rd Venice Biennial (2009); Un certain état du monde?, Garage Center for Contemporary Sophistication, Moscow (2009); Hypocrisy, Museet seek out Samtidskunst, Oslo (2009); Altermodern, Quaternary Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, Author (2009); 50 Moons of Saturn, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2008); Prospect.1 New Orleans (2009); A Global Multitude, La Rotonde 1, Luxemburg (2007); World Factory, San Francisco Art Institute (2007); Venice-Istanbul, Istanbul Museum of Modern Flow (2006); 9th Havana Biennial (2006); La Force de l'Art, Impressive Palais, Paris (2006); 6e Rencontres photographiques, Bamako (2005); 8th Biennale de Lyon (2005); 51st Metropolis Biennial (2005); Africa Remix: Coexistent Art of a Continent, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Hayward House, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Johannesburg Art Gallery (2004–2007); Le menu familial, Espace Doual'art, Douala; Kunsthalle Bern (2002–2004); Once Upon a Time, MuHKA, Antwerp (2004); Working Ethics – Non-native a Certain Flanders, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna (2004); Camuflaje, Fundación Celarg, Caracas (2004); Skulptur Biennale Münsterland, Münster (2003); Transferts, Palais throw in the towel Beaux-Arts, Brussels (2003); Next flag, BPS22, Charleroi (2003); Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2003); Ordinal Istanbul Biennial (2003); Documenta 11, Kassel (2002); 25th São Paulo Biennial (2002); Arco 2002, Madrid (2002); The Short Century: Sovereignty and Liberation Movements in Continent, 1945–1994, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; Haus der Kulturen der Welt/Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Expose, Chicago; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA, New York (2001–2002); 2nd Songwriter Biennale, Kunst-Werke, Berlin (2001); Ici et 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 Lyons (2000); Liverpool Biennial (1999); Mirror's Edge, Bildmuseet, Umeå; Vancouver Quarter Gallery; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Tramway, Glasgow; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kobenhavn (1999–2001); Trafique, S.M.A.K., Ghent (1999); South Meets West, National Museum of Ghana, Accra; Kunsthalle Berne (1999–2000); La ville dans telling ses états, Doual'art, Douala (1998); 11th Biennale of Sydney (1998); Le Déballage, Goethe-Institut, Yaoundé (1997); 6th Havana Biennial (1997); Ordinal Santa Fe Biennial (1997); Ordinal Gwangju Biennale (1997); 2nd Metropolis Biennale (1997); 2nd Dak'Art Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Port (1996); Neue Kunst aus Afrika, Haus der Kulturen der Spot, Berlin (1996); An Inside Chart – African Art of cobble together Time, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokio (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 glowing 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.