Amadou Sanogo
Artiste
The twinning includes different times for meetings and exchanges at La Criée and at the Trégain school: presentations of the art center, its backstage and its professions; visits to exhibitions; a work carried out in class by teachers from the discovery of the works; meetings and creative time with artists from the artistic program; restitutions of students' productions and exchanges via the blog Correspondances.
Following the visit to Seulgi Lee’s exhibition at the beginning of the year, the students from CM1-CM2 began work on proverbs and their representations. This research continues with the meeting of the artist Amadou Sanogo, in residence in Rennes for the preparation of his exhibition Des Paroles en paraboles, on se sert at La Criée, where he presents new paintings inspired by Bambara proverbs.
From March 9 to 13, 2020, Amadou Sanogo participated in workshops with the four classes of the Trégain school. After answering the students' questions about his practice, he made sketches, inspired by previous works or in progress. Then he suggested to the students to paint with a brush or by hand «what they have in their head or in their heart». The productions of these workshops will integrate the upcoming exhibition De paroles en paraboles, on se sert at La Criée.
Amadou Sanogo lives and works in Bamako, Mali, where he creates canvases with large figures bordered by coloured solid tints that build one after the other a "pictorial chronicle of daily life". His work and its modalities are in direct contact with the Malian society, in its cultural and historical depth as much as in its current political and social complexity. For La Criée, he creates a series of unpublished paintings inspired by proverbs collected in the region of Ségou in Bambara country, where he is from.