Issa Samb

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Issa Samb (born December 31, 1945 in the Quakam district of Dakar ; † April 25, 2017 in Dakar) was a Senegalese visual artist , writer , actor and philosopher .

Life

Issa Samb was born in Senegal in 1945 and lived in Dakar. With the filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty , the painter El Hadj Sy , the playwright Youssoufa Dione and others, he founded the Laboratoire Agit-Art group and the Village des Arts de Dakar in 1974 . In the mid to late 1980s Samb studied art at the Scuola d'arte di Dakar and philosophy at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar in Dakar .

From 1974 the Hof von Samb became a meeting place for writers, filmmakers, journalists and artists and served as a studio, prop room, gallery and theater. It slowly became a living studio, the embodiment of the aesthetic principles of Issa Samb, the most important theorist and organizer, and the Laboratoire Agit-Art . Issa Samb's work ranged from installations and performances to painting and sculpture to novels, poems and essays.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2014: Issa Samb: From the ethics of Acting to the Empire Without Signs Curator: Koyo Kouoh, Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), London
  • 2012: dOCUMENTA (13) , Kassel
  • 2011/2012: Kunsthaus Graz , Graz
  • 2010: Retrospective National Art Gallery, Dakar
  • 2008: Dakar Biennale, Dakar
  • 1995: Seven Stories of Modern Art in Africa Whitechapel Art Gallery , London

documentation

literature

  • Koyo Kouoh , Issa Samb (eds.), Koyo Kouoh, Simon Njami, Sylvette Maurin (authors): Word! Word? Word! Issa Samb and the Undecipherable Form . Sternberg Press, 2013, ISBN 978-3-95679-0-270 (English, French)
  • Issa Samb . With an introduction by Koyo Kouoh. ISBN 978-3-77572-9-444 (German, English)
  • Elizabeth Harney: In Senghor's shadow: art, politics, and the avant-garde in Senegal, 1960–1995 . Duke University Press, Durham, 2004, ISBN 0-8223-3395-3

Web links

Yvette Gresle: Issa Samb . Africanah.org, July 5, 2014 (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Décès de l'artiste sénégalais Issa Samb alias Joe Ouakam . Journal du Cameroun, April 25, 2017, accessed May 1, 2017 (French).
  2. ↑ Issa (Joe Quakam) Samb . Africultures, accessed May 1, 2017 (French).
  3. ↑ Eva Scharrer, Cordelia Marten (ed.): DOCUMENTA (13). The accompanying book / The Guidebook . Catalog 3/3., Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-2954-3 , page 304.
  4. ↑ From the ethics of acting to the empire without signs . ( Memento of April 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Practice International, 2013, accessed on May 1, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Samb, Issa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Samb, Joe Ramangelissa; Quakam, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senegalese visual artist, writer, actor and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Dakar
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2017
Place of death Dakar