Details Map Pictures Route Essays. Inspired by the memory of his father, the artist has decided to undertake a new series of sculptures representing those who have helped him not to despair of the human race. Ousmane Sow live these heroes, illustrious, unknown or anonymous history by his giant sculptures, bronzes, colorful, mixed forces, far from the monumental and the glory, for better help us to see the greatness of soul. The sculptor still remembers the poem After the battle: "My father, this hero with such a sweet smile Behind these majestic works, we can perceive the themes that were to be impoch as heroism and courage, freedom and compassion.
Translate Figure of contemporary African art, Senegalese sculptor Ousmane Sow died early Thursday in Dakar at the age of 81, hi"He takes with him dreams and projects that his too tired body did not want to follow," said his family, adding that he had made several hospital stays in Paris and Dakar in recent months.
After the fights, men and women choose their partners. Nouba women practice tattooing and scarification for religious, ethnic and aesthetic purposes. Ousmane Sow: 'As far back as I can remember, I have always sculpted.
I never thought of making a profession of it, until the day I left deeply moved by the photographs of Leni Riefenstahl portraying the Nouba of Kau. What interested me about the nouba wrestlers is that they care of their bodies and that, at some point in their lives, they run the risk of being disfigured.
Following the example of the first ancient and classical art of the African continent - the large, terracotta figurative statues of the Nok culture of Nigeria, as mute and as hallucinated as the Easter Island statues - Ousmane Sow began by kneading the earth.
