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Africa-Press – Senegal. <\/strong><\/span>The Senegalese plastic artist Zulu Mbaye justified his non-participation in the Biennial of contemporary African art (Dak’Art) by the fact that this event would be in a \u00ab\u00a0mimicry\u00a0\u00bb not allowing not to show the \u00ab\u00a0new things\u00a0\u00bb that Africa has to offer the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole world envies us this biennial. It is one of the most important artistic manifestations of the continent. If you see that I’m not taking part, it’s because I noticed an absence of meaning, an absence of content when we have new things to say and to propose to the world,\u00a0\u00bb he said. in an interview with APS ahead of the celebration of his fifty-year career in October-November.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot participate in mimicry. I don’t want us to organize this biennale as we organize the biennale of Sao Paulo or Venice or elsewhere, \u00ab\u00a0insisted Mbaye, asked to give the reasons for this absence since 1992, the year of his only participation in Dak ‘ Art.<\/p>\n

Zulu Mbaye wonders \u201cwhy Africa does not seek to interest the world in African art instead of making African art a mimicry of what is done elsewhere\u201d. \u00a0\u00bb That hurts me. And our intellectuals don’t help us find content that exists. Just put the words on it for it to be something original. The world needs new things. It is not by following dried up, sanitized, inanimate things that we will show these new things, \u201dhe said.<\/p>\n

Westerners, \u201cwhen we question their trajectories, we can understand that they are at this stage, but is this our reality? \u201c, asked the painter again, adding: \u201cAs Black Africans, what do we have to offer the world? Are we dried up and inanimate like them? We carry ideas that may interest the world, but we don’t. We are there to follow the Westerners. We do what is done in Paris, Tokyo, New York without telling ourselves that Dakar must also carry a concept. \u00bb<\/p>\n

\u00ab Dakar doit proposer un contenu qu\u2019on va proposer au monde, a-t-il poursuivi. Mais nous n\u2019avons pas a\u0300 nous comporter comme si nous n\u2019avions pas de ge\u0301nie. Nous avons sauve\u0301 le monde artistique avec la rencontre de Picasso avec la statuette ne\u0301gro-africaine. Pourquoi nous nous sous-estimons ? Pourquoi nous foulons du pied notre culture ? \u00bb<\/p>\n

Zulu Mbaye a explique\u0301 sa non-participation au Salon national des artistes pour les me\u0302mes raisons, soulignant que ces manifestations ont e\u0301te\u0301 \u00ab re\u0301cupe\u0301re\u0301es \u00bb par l\u2019E\u0301tat devant le manque d\u2019organisation des artistes.<\/p>\n

\u00ab Je ne participe plus aux manifestations organise\u0301es par l\u2019E\u0301tat. Parce que je trouve que l\u2019E\u0301tat a re\u0301cupe\u0301re\u0301 les acquis que les gens de ma ge\u0301ne\u0301ration avaient eus a\u0300 la suite d\u2019a\u0302pres luttes \u00bb, a-t-il indique\u0301.<\/p>\n

\u00ab C\u2019e\u0301tait le Salon national des artistes. C\u2019e\u0301tait l\u2019Association nationale des artistes qui organisait avec l\u2019appui de l\u2019E\u0301tat se\u0301ne\u0301galais. Le pre\u0301sident de la Re\u0301publique venait a\u0300 l\u2019ouverture. Depuis, les artistes se\u0301ne\u0301galais ont la\u0302che\u0301 et l\u2019E\u0301tat l\u2019a re\u0301cupe\u0301re\u0301 \u00bb, soutenu Zulu Mbaye, estimant qu\u2019aujourd\u2019hui, \u00ab on ne devrait plus parle du Salon des artistes se\u0301ne\u0301galais, on devait pluto\u0302t dire +Salon du ministe\u0300re de la Culture+ parce que c\u2019est l\u2019E\u0301tat l\u2019organisateur. \u00bb<\/p>\n

The only participation of Zulu Mbaye in a biennial of contemporary African art dates back to the first edition organized in 1992. He specified on this subject: \u00ab\u00a0Since 1992, I have not participated in the biennial organized by the Senegalese State . I have always participated in biennials by organizing parallel international exhibitions. And it’s no coincidence that the press called me +father of Off+, because I was behind Dak’Art’s +Off+ with an exhibition that I organized in 1996 at Almadies. Today, when I see that in Senegal, there are +Off+ everywhere \u2013 between 300 and 400 at each edition \u2013 it is a great joy for me. \u00bb<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0I didn’t fight for years to give this to the state on a silver platter. I want these achievements to remain for the artists. The day when the artists will organize themselves and resume, I will go and participate in this fair, but until it is done, I will not participate, \u201dhe decided.<\/p>\n

Pour plus d’informations et d’analyses sur la Senegal<\/a>, suivez Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Senegal. The Senegalese plastic artist Zulu Mbaye justified his non-participation in the Biennial of contemporary African art (Dak’Art) by the fact that this event would be in a \u00ab\u00a0mimicry\u00a0\u00bb not allowing not to show the \u00ab\u00a0new things\u00a0\u00bb that Africa has to offer the world. \u201cThe whole world envies us this biennial. 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