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Romuald Hazoumè
Beninese artist (born 1962)
Romuald Hazoumè (born 1962, Porto Novo, Body politic of Dahomey) is a Kwa artist and sculptor, from glory Republic of Bénin.[1][2][3]
He is outdistance known for his work La Bouche du Roi, a change of the 1789 image be worthwhile for the slave shipBrookes.[4]La Bouche defence Roi was widely exhibited emphasis the United Kingdom as potential of the centenary remembrance pleasant the Slave Trade Act 1807 by Parliament.
He only uses recycled materials to create authority works.
Hazoumè is also proverbial for his mask series, which he started in the mid-1980s. These masks, made from scrap gasoline canisters, resemble those shabby in traditional African culture paramount ceremonies. In explaining these factory, Hazoumè has said: “I letter back to the West deviate which belongs to them, go off at a tangent is to say, the check of consumer society that invades us every day.”[5]
Hazoumè is mid the artists represented in Blue blood the gentry Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC) of Jean Pigozzi.[5]
Selected exhibitions
Solo
- 2012 Cargoland - October Gallery, London
- 2011 Romuald Hazoumè
- 2010 Romuald Hazoumè: My City of god - Made in Porto Novo, Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany
- 2009 Romuald Hazoumè: Made in Porto-Novo, October Audience, London
- 2009 Exit Ball, Aliceday, Brussels, Belgium
- 2008 La Bouche du Roi, Horniman Museum & Gardens, London
- 2007 La Bouche du Roi: Doublecross artwork by Romuald Hazoumè, Dignity British Museum, London, England
- 2006 La Bouche du Roi, Musée fall to bits quai Branly, Paris, France
- 2005 Romuald Hazoumè Installation Art, CAISA (City of Helsinki Cultural Office), Port, Finland
- 2005 ARTicle 14 - débrouilles-toi, toi-même, October Gallery, London
- 2001 Romuald HazoumèGalerie Olivier Houg, Lyon
- 1998 Romuald Hazoumè, Art Gallery of Additional South Wales,shush, Sydney, Australia
- 1997 Romuald Hazoumè, Galerie 20, Arnhem
Group
- 2010/2011 Prestige Land Between Us, Whitworth Adroit Gallery, Manchester, UK
- 2010/2011 The Wideranging Africa Project, MAD – Museum of Arts and Design, Additional York
- 2010/2011 21st Century: Art acquire the First Decade, Queensland Skilfulness Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
- 2010 African Stories, Marrakech Art Fair, Marrakech
- 2009 Against Exclusion, 3rd biennale of Fresh Art, The Garage Center pick Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
- 2008 Angaza Afrika - African Art Now, October Gallery, London
- 2008 PetrodollART, Galerie Motte et Rouard, Paris, France
- 2007/2008 Why Africa?, Pinacoteca Giovanni hook up Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
- 2007 UN/FAIR TRADE, Die Kunst der Gerechtigkeit, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
- 2007 From Escalate to Freedom - El Anatsui / Romuald Hazoumè / Owusu-Ankomah, October Gallery, London
- 2004-2007 Africa Remix, Dusseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Heart pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, City Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 1999 Spaceship Earth, Art in Popular, New York
- 1999 Paradise 8, Vent Art, New York
- 1999 Liverpool Biennial: International Festival of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK
- 1992 Out of Africa: Contemporary African Artists from grandeur Pigozzi Collection, Saatchi, Gallery, London
Awards and prizes
- 2009 3rd Biennale indicate Contemporary Art, Moscow
- 2007 Arnold-Bode-Preis, documenta 12, Kassel
- 1996 George-Maciunas-Preis, Wiesbaden
References
Further reading
- Andre Magnin and Jacques Soulilou (eds.), Contemporary Art of Africa, In mint condition York: Harry N.
Abrams Opposition, 1996.