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Soly Cisse

Soly Cisse (Born 1969) is active/lives in Senegal.  Soly Cisse is known for Versatile artwork style using various mediums such as canvas, paper, iron, and wood. Explores the duality between tradition and modernity..

Soly Cissé, who was born in 1969 in Senegal, lives and works in the city of Dakar and is one of Senegal's most celebrated artists. He has exhibited widely in Europe, the Americas and within Africa. Despite his father, who was a medical doctor, fiercely objecting, Cissé attended the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Dakar, graduated top of his class and went on to show regularly in Dakar throughout the 1990's. As a young boy, Cissé drew on the X-rays that his medical doctor father brought back from work. Today he is still fascinated by light, transparency, and in the essence of colour. When painting, Cissé lights up a scene, uncovers a story, and frees characters from the darkness of a black uniform background. Intuitive rather than conceptual, Cisse's painting combines a sensuality of touch that is born out of the aesthetics of Dakar as manifest in its music and textiles and the vibrancy of its multi ethnic trading culture. The cost of modernity is a common theme - the natural wohttp://theauctionroom.com/auctions/9   ...  [Displaying 1036 of 2841 characters.]  Artist bio

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