Installation --by Romuald Hazoumé---
The central installation takes a market vendor's cart that would once have carried Coca Cola, beer, plastic toys, jugs, footballs, brushes, razors and pans, and subverts it into a biting critique of the consumer encounter. Where once hung newly manufactured products, waiting for consumption, we now find empty shells and spent materials – the debris of capitalist exchange.----
--Romuald Hazoumé---Romuald Hazoumé (Detail) --- Romuald Hazoumé born 1962----Beninese artist exposes African injustice in Europe----Romuald Hazoumé ----Romuald Hazoume, KGB, Mixed Media.---Bidon Arme, By Romuald Hazoume (Benin).--
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Romuald Hazoumé ---
At once material and spiritual, the art of Romuald Hazoumé attests to a freedom that plays a central role in animist and Christian cultures. Through the combination of African ceremony with modern materials in his performances, totems (made with a power saw), and masks (made with found objects), Hazoumé incites an atmosphere of both conflict and rest. “I know very well that the initiated take care that tradition is respected,” Hazoumé once said. (Before the opening of his exhibitions, the artist invokes the spirits and the Great Priest who controls access to them.)
"Buruchas", 1997
Hazoumé recicla y resemantiza no sólo el desecho industrial, sino también la manufactura tradicional, junto con la iconografía ritual. Aunque su obra no parece tener una intención paródica en su aproximación a la tradiciones africanas, lo cierto es que desacraliza el objeto en su sentido modernista, con lo cual sólo está reproduciendo a nivel artístico lo que ya ocurría a nivel de marché.
ROMUALD HAZOUMÉ - Bild - Symbol - Bild
"Maske" ....Hazoumé, Romuald Benin ...more
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