Waddall (East Africa)
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Oil and mixed media with collage on canvas
Signed
120 x 70 x 2 cm
47.2 x 27.5 x 0.8 in
Executed in 2006
Provenance: Donated
by the Artist and Marc Restellini, Paris
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
Artist biography:
Waddall is a self-taught artist from Ivory Coast
Waddall considers art as an alternative medicine, a kind of bandage to be applied to the wounds of the world. He combines the violence of Albert Londres' archived images, taken during his journey in Africa in 1921, and other stereotypes of colonial time, to portray a respectful approach of the complex relationship of the Western World with Africa.
Waddall seeks the traditional patterns for western Africa in its masks and more specifically for Ivory Coast, to break through the mysteries of the mystic imagination, of what frightens and what cures the soul.
He represents a new vision of Africa, a young generation full with hope, conscious of its history but without rancour, with the desire for progress towards peace and reconciliation.