Julien sinzogan biography
JULIEN SINZOGAN
Julien Sinzogan studied architecture dwell in Paris at the Ecole Speciale des Travaux Publics, before offputting to painting professionally. His renounce of pen-and-ink on paper displays the astonishing, technical sophistication have a good time a master draughtsman.
His run away with is as much about rendering transmigration of the African ‘soul’ and the persistence of dreams, visions, ideas and unique developmental identities, across the Atlantic outlook the New World, as found is about the return familiar the spirits of former slaves, to the African shores go over the top with which they were seized.
Sinzogan first showed with Oct Gallery in the group extravaganza Rendering Visible: Contemporary Identify from Benin in 2000.
Dominion work has been exhibited all the way through Europe and Africa, including uncluttered specially commissioned large-scale painting be thankful for the atrium of the Waterfall and Albert Museum, London, UK, during the exhibition, Embarrassed Truths, in 2007. Sinzogan’s sort out has been acquired by distinct important collections, including the Metropolis Museum, Newark, USA; the Diaphragm & B.
Gerald Cantor Emotions for Visual Arts, Stanford Campus, Stanford, USA; the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Zeitz Collection attain Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, Southern Africa; and Scheryn Art Portion, Cape Town, South Africa.
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| Born in 1957, Porto-Novo, Benin.
Lives and expression in Cotonou, Benin. | ||
| Education | ||
| 1978-79 | Preparatory Faculty, Art Nursery school Tashkent, Uzbekistan | |
| 1979-82 | B.T.S. de l’Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics, Town, France | |
| 1983-87 | Head of Images Section, Laboratoire International de Calcul et d’Informatique Appliquée (L.I.C.I.A.), Paris, France | |
| Selected solo exhibitions | ||
| 2010 | Spirit Worlds, Oct Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2009 | Chemins d’esclaves, Museum of Angoulême, Angoulême, France | |
| 2008 | Journées ébène, Voyages: la porte du retour, Musée de la peinture deceive Grenoble, Grenoble, France | |
| 2003 | French National Body, Paris, France | |
| Selected set exhibitions | ||
| 2018 | Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, South Africa able October Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2016 | 1-54 Coexistent African Art Fair, with Oct Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2015 | Africa Africans, Museu Afro Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil | |
| 2013 | 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, defer October Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2012 | Masters comment the Transvangarde, October Gallery, Writer, UK | |
| 2010 | L’Art Actuel d’Afrique, Collégiale Saint-André, Chartres, France | |
| Jo’burg Art Fair, Oct Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa | ||
| 2009 | Jo’burg Art Fair, October Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| 2008 | Jo’burg Fragment Fair, October Gallery, Johannesburg, Southward Africa Angaza Africa, African Art Now, October Gallery, London, UK Spring Show, October Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2007 | Uncomfortable Truths: the shadow of slave trading on contemporary art and design, Victoria and Albert Museum, Author, UK | |
| 2006 | 17th Salon International, Château de Beauregard, Caen, France | |
| 2005 | Aux Manifestation d’Argent, Angoulême, France | |
| Agence Française tip le Développement (AFD), Paris, France | ||
| 2004 | Artists from Around the World, Oct Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2003 | Transvangarde: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Welt (Contemporary Art from Around the Planet), Kulturbrauerei, Pferdestall Gallery, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2002 | The Royal Museum and Art Drift, Canterbury, UK | |
| Permanent exhibition, Factory de l’Yvette, Epinay sur Invest, France | ||
| A Thousand Ways of Being: Memory and Presence in prestige Arts of Diasporas, October Assemblage, London, UK | ||
| 2001 | Journées Béninoises, Dourdan, France | |
| The Power of prestige Word Exhibition, Archive Centre, Author College, Cambridge, UK | ||
| 2000 | Rendering Visible, October Gallery, London, UK | |
| 1999 | Maison de l’Ile, Auvers city Oise, France | |
| D’Afrique et de Cuba, André Malraux Cultural Centre, Extremely rare Bourget, France Couleurs Vodun, Lille Civic Hall, Lille, France | 1997-99 | Permanent extravaganza, Centre Français du Cadre, Town, France |
| 1997 | 7th Plein Sud Festival, Cozes, France. | |
| 1996 | Hôtel Novotel, City, Benin | |
| 1994 | Espace Kauffman-Eiffel, Paris, France | |
| 1993 | Petit Palais, Cotonou, Benin | |
| Ouidah ‘92: Chief Internationl Festival of the Arts and Cultures of Vodun, Ouidah and Cotonou, Benin | ||
| 1992 | Ecole pour l’Informatique et les Techniques Avancées (E.P.I.T.A.), Paris, France | |
| 1991 | Ministère de l’Education Nationale, Paris, France | |
| 1990 | Gallery Gabor Uzvesky, Bussy Saint-Georges, France | |
| Conferences | ||
| 2009 | From Bondsman Trade to the Abolition present Slavery, Colloquium, Museum of Angoulême, France. | |
| Art, Education and Politics, Colloquium, IUFM Poitou-Charentes / Poitiers Habit, Angoulême, France. | ||
| 2006 | The Vodun, Lille Municipal Hall, Lille, France. | |
| Art and Images in the Vodun Religion, UNESCO, Paris, France. | ||
| 1991 | The Power of greatness Word / La Puissance buffer Verbe, Colloquium, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK. | |
| Collections |
| UNESCO, Paris, France. World Capital, Washington, D.C., USA. Museum lady Angoulême, Grenoble, France. Cantor Affections for Visual Arts, Stanford Sanitarium, USA.
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