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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. Issiaka does not rebel against this. Born at the end of the last century, he is in the modernity of his time, gets around on a motorbike, knows how to dismantle his engine choked with dust, accelerates at the green light together with a hundred others in the carbon cloud of traffic jams of Ouagadougou… But at the same time, he pricks up his ears to listen to his ancestors, the Mossi. Certainly his generation no longer wears the traditional scarifications on either side of the face, but he has not lowered the iron curtain on his culture, on what he is.
The sculptures of Issiaka Savadogo are undeniable testimonies of the modern history of the peoples of Africa, of this passage and this rocking of their history, of its evolutions and its breaks, from the most distant times, that of the magic, shamans, legends, cultures with its rituals punctuated by songs and percussion, a time when bodies reached the peaks of their amplitude.
Would these times be definitively forgotten? To believe that the efficiencies of these great Western machines that have chewed up the human landscape since colonization have taken power to the very roots! 62547629
