Soly Cisse, 1969
'untitled' 2016 - mixed media on canvas | 60 cm x 60 cm
'untitled' 2016 - mixed media on canvas | 100 cm x 100 cm
'untitled' 2016 - mixed media on canvas | 100 cm x 100 cm
'untitled' 2011 - mixed media on canvas | 80 cm x 60 cm
BIO
Soly Cissé was born in 1969 in Dakar, Senegal. He graduated in 1996 from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Dakar.
The theme of Cissé's paintings is repeatedly the duality between tradition and modernity. He uses arrows to separate Good from Evil, in vertical and horizontal lines to picture life and death and also to contrast colors. They show an extreme fury of the individuum towards a world left to its own.
Cissé shows the individuum which has dropped his ethnic identity and is now entangled in his self made restrictions.