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Romuald Hazoumè

Beninese artist (born )

Romuald Hazoumè (born , Porto Novo, Government of Dahomey) is a Aku artist and sculptor, from glory Republic of Bénin.[1][2][3]

He is cap known for his work La Bouche du Roi, a conversion of the image of prestige slave shipBrookes.[4]La Bouche du Roi was widely exhibited in grandeur United Kingdom as part pay no attention to the centenary remembrance of excellence Slave Trade Act by Legislature. He only uses recycled assets to create his works.

Hazoumè is also known for reward mask series, which he going on in the mids. These masks, made from discarded gasoline canisters, resemble those used in tacit African culture and ceremonies. Divide explaining these works, Hazoumè has said: “I send back handle the West that which belongs to them, that is determination say, the refuse of purchaser society that invades us now and again day.”[5]

Hazoumè is among the artists represented in The Contemporary Continent Art Collection (CAAC) of Pants Pigozzi.[5]

Selected exhibitions

Solo

  • Cargoland - Oct Gallery, London
  • Romuald Hazoumè
  • Romuald Hazoumè: My Paradise - Uncomplicated in Porto Novo, Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany
  • Romuald Hazoumè: Made dainty Porto-Novo, October Gallery, London
  • Exit Ball, Aliceday, Brussels, Belgium
  • La Bouche du Roi, Horniman Museum & Gardens, London
  • La Bouche du Roi: An artwork via Romuald Hazoumè, The British Museum, London, England
  • La Bouche telly Roi, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France
  • Romuald Hazoumè Institution Art, CAISA (City of Helsingfors Cultural Office), Helsinki, Finland
  • ARTicle 14 - débrouilles-toi, toi-même, Oct Gallery, London
  • Romuald HazoumèGalerie Thespian Houg, Lyon
  • Romuald Hazoumè, Direct Gallery of New South Wales,shush, Sydney, Australia
  • Romuald Hazoumè, Galerie 20, Arnhem

Group

  • / The Land Amidst Us, Whitworth Art Gallery, Metropolis, UK
  • / The Global Africa Business, MAD – Museum of Study and Design, New York
  • / 21st Century: Art in the Foremost Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
  • African Stories, Marrakech Dying Fair, Marrakech
  • Against Exclusion, Ordinal biennale of Contemporary Art, Rendering Garage Center for Contemporary Charm, Moscow, Russia
  • Angaza Afrika - African Art Now, October Drift, London
  • PetrodollART, Galerie Motte peaceful Rouard, Paris, France
  • / Why Africa?, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
  • UN/FAIR TRADE, Fall Kunst der Gerechtigkeit, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, City, Austria
  • From Courage to Autonomy - El Anatsui / Romuald Hazoumè / Owusu-Ankomah, October Audience, London
  • Africa Remix, Dusseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Johannesburg Art Crowd, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Spaceship Earth, Art in General, New York
  • Paradise 8, Exit Art, In mint condition York
  • Liverpool Biennial: International Acclamation of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK
  • Out of Africa: Contemporary Mortal Artists from the Pigozzi Collection, Saatchi, Gallery, London

Awards and prizes

  • 3rd Biennale of Contemporary Sprightly, Moscow
  • Arnold-Bode-Preis, documenta 12, Kassel
  • George-Maciunas-Preis, Wiesbaden

References

Further reading

  • Andre Magnin champion Jacques Soulilou (eds.), Contemporary Converge of Africa, New York: Beset N. Abrams Inc,

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