Collection: Souleymane Keita

In 1960, the year Senegal gained independence, Souleymane Keita (1947-2014) was admitted to the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Dakar, where he would study fine arts and ceramics. 

In his early paintings, Keita depicted mask-like faces and figures like many artists of the first generation working within the context of the cultural policy set up by Senegal's first president, Léopold Sédar Senghor. 

Over time, however, he became increasingly drawn to non-figurative compositions. He started to make collages and to paint on different supports and formats, including round canvases, at times blurring the lines between painting and sculpture. 

From 1980 to 1985, he spent five formative years in New York City, before finally moving back to his birthplace of Gorée, a small island close to Dakar and a memorial site of the Atlantic slave trade.

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En 1960, année de l'indépendance du Sénégal, Souleymane Keita (1947-2014) entre à l'Ecole nationale des beaux-arts de Dakar, où il étudie les arts plastiques et la céramique. 

Dans ses premières oeuvres, il peint des visages et des figures qui évoquent des masques, comme de nombreux jeunes artistes travaillant dans le cadre de la politique culturelle voulue par Léopold Sédar Senghor, premier président du Sénégal. 

Puis il travaille des compositions non figuratives. Il se met à réaliser des collages et à peindre sur divers supports et formats, dont des toiles rondes, et brouille la frontière entre peinture et sculpture. 

De 1980 à 1985, il passe cinq années formatrices à New York, puis il retourne à Gorée, une île située en face de Dakar et lieu de commémoration du commerce des esclaves à travers l'Atlantique. 

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