15 januari 2019

Ousmane Sow #2


Ousmane Sow's home and studio, Dakar, Senegal.

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Ousmane Sow called this house, in which he lived until his death, The Sphinx because for him it anticipated the series he was planning to create on the Egyptians. The head, arms and back of the Sphinx are represented symbolically in an architecture that is resolutely modern, which he had designed as a model, as a sculpture, as an individual work of art.

That was in 1991. The house was finished in 1999, the year he completed his Battle of the Little Big Horn.
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While creating that series, he produced the tiles for his house with his own hands and covered the walls with the same materials used for his sculptures. In other words, there is a perfect match between the works and the place, which could soon join the list of the world’s legendary houses.
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Maquette.


Ousmane Sow on the roof of his home, Dakar. (bron: Ousmane Sow)

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