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Keepin' it ghetto
| Senegal's No. 1 "trash" artist |
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| Thursday, 13 August 2009 | |
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From his unassuming manner you couldn't tell that Mamadou Tall Diedhiou is Senegal's most renowned "trash" artist. Starting out as a poet, he moved into painting in the early 1990s, and then into recup art, taking part in the Biennale des Arts Contemporains de Dakar, and exhibiting in Hauts de Garonne, France.
Art from "rubbish"? But, though the history is long, as is the list of modern artists with "found" objects in their art, the practice of making art solely by recycling "trash" really took off when the environmental movement started to gain mainstream awareness in the 1970s. Mamadou Tall Diedhiou (b. August 7, 1947) Mamadou, though, is quite singular in the art world, in that no one else has focussed on the creation of one form of object, birds, with no two of his mysterious creations being alike. The closest from outside this world that I can think of are Giacometti's etiolated statues. Mamadou choice of object is based on the role of the bird in human affairs according to Senegalese culture and tradition, and on the migrating birds seen from his home village of Niomoune. More trash art John Dahlsen - Australia
Recup art - Paris, 2005 See also The Bird Maker (A 5-minute film by Cheikh Darou Seck, from My Hero Short Film Festival) Recycled Cigarette Art by Tom Deininger Creative Recycled Art, Architecture, and Design Carhenge: Scrap Vehicles Replicate Prehistoric Monument The Art of Junk: 7 Creative Approaches to Trash Reuse Recycled Art listings (Eco-business links) Vidz posted by Humanwire, ROCKETBOOM, bcdesjeux, recup-art and johndahlsen
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