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Zinkpè, Dominique

Dominique Zinkpè

Zinkpè was born in the Republic of Benin, and is one of the most celebrated contemporary artists to emerge from his country. He uses a range of media, including painting, sculpture, installation and video, and his work is influenced by his country’s rich history and his immediate African surroundings.

His early installations depict contorted, grotesque human-animal forms created from thick tree roots, branches, iron wire and textiles. His later paintings have been described as depicting a ‘world of ghosts’ – as well as the transformations that humans, animals and organic forms undergo through interaction with their environment. His hybrid beings – somewhere between human and animal, the living and the dead – engage
in dance and evoke rituals and games around status and gender that are deeply rooted in Benin culture.

Zinkpè’s paintings have a surrealist quality, and nurturing fertile women often appear in his work, recalling themes of desire and motherhood.
His broad oeuvre draws from the aesthetic currents of the past, underscoring the unresolved tensions arising from the fusion of Catholicism, Animism and indigenous traditions with contemporary culture – and these themes are often explored in the spirit of irony and satire.

Awards

  • 2002 Zinkpe won the Prix Umeoa at the Dakar Biennale1993 Zinkpe was awarded the Prix Jeune Talent Africa

Solo Exhibition

  • 2019 Residency and Solo, Dyman Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa, November 2019

Group Exhibitions

  • 2019 Afreeca , Galerie Galea , Beaumettes
    On Paper , ARTCO Gallery , Aachen

Art Fairs

  • 2019 L’agence à Paris at 1-54 New York 2019 , L’agence à Paris
    In Situ – Fabienne Leclerc at 1-54 Marrakech 2019 , In Situ – Fabienne Leclerc2018 Galerie Vallois at 1-54 Marrakech 2018, Galerie Vallois

    2016 In Situ – Fabienne Leclerc at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair New York 2016, In Situ –
    Fabienne Leclerc

    2015 In Situ – Fabienne Leclerc at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair London 2015 , In Situ –
    Fabienne Leclerc

    2014 In Situ – Fabienne Leclerc at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair 2014 , In Situ – Fabienne
    Leclerc

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