SAMA

SAMA

Prologue | Biography

Prolog
Looking at the works of the painter Sama one tends to think that the apparent disorder of his pictures is wanted or organized. However, it is the disorder of the society in which the artist lives.

The pictures of Sama transpose the spectator to quarters in Ougadougou with their dusty laterite roads or to the walls which seperate the individual properties from each other.

Sama explores the surface of the earth and he gathers everything he finds. This includes shreds of plants, pieces of plastic packing material, remnants of fabric ...... He integrates all these various items in his works of art . In this way his pictures attract the onlooker like a magnet attracts steel and they invite for a walk through his world.

However, Sama does not only rely on the various pieces of his collections for his pictures, he also draws his motives from the house and wall paintings of the Kasèna (figures or geometrical forms) and at times takes protest slogans which yougsters from the suburbs have written in their own language on houses and walls.

The paintings of Sama are rooted deeply in the daily life in Ouagadougou and the symbols of apparent disorder give his pictures their specific something.

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Biography

Was born on 12th November, 1967 in Burkina Faso. He lives and works in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

1981 - 1984	Training-colleges at Centre National de l'Artisant d'Art de Ouagadougou

Exhibitions in Burkina Faso
	Centre des arts in Ouagadougou
	Centre Culturel Français "Georges Méliés", Ouagadougou

Exhibitions abroad
1989	Centre Culturel Abidjan (Ivory Coast)
1990	Foire de Dakar (Senegal)
1991	Centre Culturel Abidjan (Ivory Coast)
1994	Centre Culturel Niamey (Niger) Exhibitions in Limoge and Paris (France) Fondation Olorun in Kansas City (USA)
1996	Centre Culturel Lomé (Togo)
1997	Ecole d'art in Chambery (France)
1998	Exhibition in Belfort (France) Andorrama (Andorra) Sainte Foye les Lyon (France) Atelier du Fripapet, Dole (France) Ecole d'Art de Chambéry (France)
1999	"Alte Papierfabrik" in Ebertsheim (Germany) Galery Mediart, Paris (France) Galery ARTE, Dakar (Sénégal)
2000	La Galerie EDO, Strasbourg (France) Galery A CONTARIO, Limoges (France) Internationales Zentrum (IZ), Duisburg (Germany) Hessian Parliament, Wiesbaden (Germany) Tanzhaus nrw die werkstatt, Düsseldorf (Germany)
2001	Galery de Turenne, Troyes (France) Sparkasse Essen-Rüttenscheid (Germany) Wohnstift Augustinum, Essen (Germany) Citibank Krefeld (Germany)
2002	KuBa Kunsthalle, Wolfenbüttel (Germany) Portes ouvertes à Dole (France) Musée de Bédargue (France)
2003	Orangerie, Grugapark Essen (Germany) Viterra Energy Services GmbH & Co.KG, Münster (Germany) L'ATELIER, Contonou (Benin) GONDWANA, Ouagadougou / Burkina Faso Exposition chez Nicole Martel, Paris / France Galerie de Turenne, Toyes / France
2004	Galerie Clémangis, Châlons-en-Champagne / France

Bibliografie Revue Noire No. 17, 1995 Participation in the art design for the film "Keita" by Dany Kouyaté.

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