Pascale Marthine Tayou

Colonne Pascale, 2012
Clay/ceramic pots, dishes and cups, steel poles

Pascale Marthine Tayou (b. 1967 in Yaoundé, Cameroon) began his career as an artist in the 1990s, when he changed his name, taking a double name in the female form: Pascal(e) Marthin(e). Exhibitions in Cameroon were soon followed by shows in Germany, France and Belgium, the country where he currently lives.

His work is deliberately mobile, elusive of pre-established schema, heterogeneous. It is always closely linked to the idea of travel and of coming into contact with what is other to self, and is so spontaneous that it almost seems casual. The objects, sculptures, installations, drawings and videos produced by Tayou have a recurrent feature in common: they dwell upon an individual moving through the world and exploring the issue of the global village.

Tayou has contributed to a number of major international exhibitions and art events, such as Documenta 11 (2002) and the Biennials of Istanbul (2003), Lyon (2005), Venice (2005 and 2009), and has shown his work in museums around the world. He had had solo shows at the MACRO (Rome, 2004), at the S.M.A.K. (Ghent, Belgium, 2004), at the MARTa Herford (Herford, Germany, 2005), at the Milton Keynes Gallery (Milton Keynes, UK, 2007) and at the Malmö Konsthall (Malmö, Sweden, 2010), at the REVURE NOIR (Expressions Contemporaines d’Afrique et du Monde Paris 2011) and MUDAM LUXEMBOURG ( Luxembourg, 2011).

See also: www.pascalemarthinetayou.com

Generously supported by Gallery Continua.