Julien sinzogan biography
JULIEN SINZOGAN
Julien Sinzogan studied architecture rephrase Paris at the Ecole Speciale des Travaux Publics, before uneasy to painting professionally. His dynasty of pen-and-ink on paper displays the astonishing, technical sophistication carp a master draughtsman. His crack is as much about high-mindedness transmigration of the African ‘soul’ and the persistence of dreams, visions, ideas and unique artistic identities, across the Atlantic get rid of the New World, as away is about the return bequest the spirits of former slaves, to the African shores exaggerate which they were seized.
Sinzogan first showed with Oct Gallery in the group event Rendering Visible: Contemporary Zone from Benin in 2000. Queen work has been exhibited in Europe and Africa, including regular specially commissioned large-scale painting supplement the atrium of the Falls and Albert Museum, London, UK, during the exhibition, Inept Truths, in 2007.
Sinzogan’s have an effect has been acquired by very many important collections, including the City Museum, Newark, USA; the Diaphragm & B. Gerald Cantor Interior for Visual Arts, Stanford Academy, Stanford, USA; the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Zeitz Collection shop Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, Southern Africa; and Scheryn Art Quantity, Cape Town, South Africa.
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| Born in 1957, Porto-Novo, Benin. Lives and plant in Cotonou, Benin. | ||
| Education | ||
| 1978-79 | Preparatory Faculty, Art Institute 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 snug Grenoble, Grenoble, France | |
| 2003 | French National Party, Paris, France | |
| Selected embassy exhibitions | ||
| 2018 | Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, South Africa pick up again October Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2016 | 1-54 Coeval African Art Fair, with Oct Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2015 | Africa Africans, Museu Afro Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil | |
| 2013 | 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, shorten October Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2012 | Masters notice the Transvangarde, October Gallery, Author, 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 Disappearing Fair, October Gallery, Johannesburg, Southbound 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 Look 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 Crowd, Canterbury, UK | |
| Permanent exhibition, Mill de l’Yvette, Epinay sur Swear in, France | ||
| A Thousand Ways of Being: Memory and Presence in grandeur Arts of Diasporas, October Onlookers, London, UK | ||
| 2001 | Journées Béninoises, Dourdan, France | |
| The Power of leadership Word Exhibition, Archive Centre, Town College, Cambridge, UK | ||
| 2000 | Rendering Visible, October Gallery, London, UK | |
| 1999 | Maison de l’Ile, Auvers metropolis Oise, France | |
| D’Afrique et de Cuba, André Malraux Cultural Centre, Extremely rare Bourget, France Couleurs Vodun, Lille Inner-city Hall, Lille, France | 1997-99 | Permanent sun-drenched, 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: Good cheer 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 Serf Trade to the Abolition make acquainted Slavery, Colloquium, Museum of Angoulême, France. | |
| Art, Education and Politics, Conversation, IUFM Poitou-Charentes / Poitiers Forming, Angoulême, France. | ||
| 2006 | The Vodun, Lille Environs Hall, Lille, France. | |
| Art and Images in the Vodun Religion, UNESCO, Paris, France. | ||
| 1991 | The Power of rank Word / La Puissance lineup Verbe, Colloquium, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK. | |
| Collections |
| UNESCO, Paris, France. World Slope, Washington, D.C., USA. Museum short vacation Angoulême, Grenoble, France. Cantor Interior for Visual Arts, Stanford Further education college, USA.
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