Salle des congrès, Maison du PDCI-RDA, Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire

François-Xavier Gbré

Salle des congrès, Maison du PDCI-RDA, Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire, 201890 x 120cmSign in to view price
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The artwork presents a striking visual composition featuring a semicircular arrangement of wooden structures adorned with numerous white, tattered cloths. The colors are predominantly muted, with a predominant golden hue lending an atmospheric quality to the scene. The shapes and textures created by the weathered wooden frames and hanging fabric create a sense of both decay and ephemeral beauty. The subject matter appears to be a collection of discarded or abandoned cloths, evoking a sense of the passage of time and the fragility of material possessions. The artistic style and technique suggest an interest in exploring the relationships between the natural and the man-made, as well as the cycle of creation and destruction. The overall context and intention behind the piece may be a contemplation on the transient nature of human existence and the impermanence of material goods. ...

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François-Xavier Gbré
Artist
François-Xavier Gbré
B.1978, Ivorian

Living and working between France and Ivory Coast, this mixed-race Ivorian artist, who grew up in the North of France, faces Côte d'Ivoire's change, economic growth, great urban expansion, and above all vestiges. Step by step, François-Xavier Gbré creates a landscape of his own through a collection of photographs, which reveal hidden aspects of everyday life. The past in Gbré's photographs is foreign and unfinished. United by a methodical, often distanced perspective on architecture and landscape as a form of documentary evidence, his work recalls the landmark photography of Lewis Baltz, Stephen Shore, and Guy Tillim. From Mali to Israel, from Lille to Rabat, he photographs abandoned constructions that bear the traces of the social and political history of their country. François-Xavier Gbré's photographs cast a detached eye on these buildings and the symbolic weight that nations lay upon them. With his series Tracks, started in 2009, he deals with the symbolism of once-valorized objects, now left behind. His images of interior scenes and the surfaces of abandoned buildings constructed during the colonial era or at the moment of independence sustain an examination of aesthetic and sociopolitical forces on architecture. With a soft radicality, he testifies of an interval, of those swinging moments intensely revealed by architecture. With a sensibility that is deeply engaged in recording the state of the world and partaking in it through photography, François-Xavier Gbré's photographs reveal a passing, a track. The unexpected object or detail that brings back history is always present, moreover actual. In the urban confusion, where we sometimes get lost, and throughout his works, the question of our lifestyles, our social interactions and our relation to History, is raised on a local scale, as an echo of universal expression. ...

François-Xavier Gbré: Artworks
Eko Atlantic #5, Lagos, Nigeria
Eko Atlantic #3, Lagos, Nigeria
Quartier Kôré, Ségou, Mali
Les fantômes verts
François-Xavier GbréLes fantômes verts, 2021
90 x 120cm
Funérailles
Terre brûlée, Ségou, Mali
Misi, Balazan, Ségou, Mali
Grand Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire
Strates #2
François-Xavier GbréStrates #2, 2022
160 x 120cm
Eko Atlantic #2, Lagos, Nigeria
Installation Mali Militari
Ait Kamara
Al Hoceima
Badès #1
Badès #2
Badès #3
Badès #4
Balazan, Ségou, Mali
Bamako, Mali
François-Xavier GbréBamako, Mali, 2012
100 x 150cm
Beni Boufra
Beni Boufra #1
Beni Boufra #10
Beni Boufra #11
Beni Boufra #12
Beni Boufra #13
Beni Boufra #14
Beni Boufra #15
Beni Boufra #16
Beni Boufra #17
Beni Boufra #18
Beni Boufra #19
Beni Boufra #2
Beni Boufra #20
Beni Boufra #3
Beni Boufra #4
Beni Boufra #5
Beni Boufra #6
Beni Boufra #6
Beni Boufra #7
Beni Boufra #8
Beni Boufra #9
Cala Iris #1
Cala Iris #2
Cala Iris #3
Cala Iris #4
Cala Iris #5
Campement
François-Xavier GbréCampement, 2021
45 x 60cm
Chair, Tracks series, Tiberias
Cheval, Bamako
François-Xavier GbréCheval, Bamako, 2013
100 x 150cm
Dakar, Sénégal
François-Xavier GbréDakar, Sénégal, 2012
100 x 150cm
Décharge d’Akouédo, Abidjan
Doors #1, Tracks series, Lyon
Eden
François-Xavier GbréEden, 2021
120 x 160cm
Eko Atlantic #1, Lagos, Nigeria
Eko Atlantic #10, Lagos, Nigéria
Eko Atlantic #3, Lagos, Nigeria
Eko Atlantic #4, Lagos, Nigeria
Eko Atlantic #5, Lagos, Nigeria
Eko Atlantic #6, Lagos, Nigeria
Eko Atlantic #7, Lagos, Nigeria
Eko Atlantic #8, Lagos, Nigeria
Eko Atlantic #9, Lagos, Nigeria
Émergence, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire,
Fadjiguila #1, Bamako, Mali
Fadjiguila #2, Bamako, Mali
Fadjiguila #3, Bamako, Mali
Funérailles
Gorée, Dakar, Sénégal
Grand Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire
Hôtel de France #1
François-Xavier GbréHôtel de France #1, 2021
160 x 120cm
L'Éclat
François-Xavier GbréL'Éclat, 2021
160 x 120cm
L'Épave
François-Xavier GbréL'Épave, 2021
80 x 60cm
La Cage
François-Xavier GbréLa Cage, 2015
45 x 60cm
La Cité
François-Xavier GbréLa Cité, 2015
120 x 160cm
La Coulée
François-Xavier GbréLa Coulée, 2021
120 x 160cm
La dernière danse
François-Xavier GbréLa dernière danse, 2021
160 x 120cm
La Fournaise
François-Xavier GbréLa Fournaise, 2021
160 x 120cm
La Tortue
François-Xavier GbréLa Tortue, 2015
45 x 60cm
La Vague
François-Xavier GbréLa Vague, 2021
160 x 120cm
Le bois sacré
François-Xavier GbréLe bois sacré, 2021
45 x 60cm
Le Socle
François-Xavier GbréLe Socle, 2021
45 x 60cm
Les fantômes verts
François-Xavier GbréLes fantômes verts, 2021
90 x 120cm
L’arbre du sauveur, Bamako
Maquis #1, Sotuba, Bamako
Misi, Balazan, Ségou, Mali
Missabougou, Bamako
François-Xavier GbréMissabougou, Bamako, 2011
100 x 150cm
Néon #1, Yopougon, Abidjan
Oued Essif-N16_T
François-Xavier GbréOued Essif-N16_T, 2013
102 x 136cm
Plateau #1, Abidjan
François-Xavier GbréPlateau #1, Abidjan, 2013
75 x 100cm
Pont HKB #1, Cocody, Abidjan
Pyramide, Saint Louis, Sénégal
Quai fruitier, Plateau, Abidjan
Quartier Kôré, Ségou, Mali
Route Izemmouren
Sans Titre, Mali
Sebt Beni Gimil, N 16
François-Xavier GbréSebt Beni Gimil, N 16, 2013
150 x 100cm
Sotuba, Bamako
François-Xavier GbréSotuba, Bamako, 2013
100 x 150cm
Station CIDP #1, Ségou, Mali
Station CIDP #2, Ségou, Mali
Strates
François-Xavier GbréStrates, 2021
160 x 120cm
Strates #2
François-Xavier GbréStrates #2, 2022
160 x 120cm
Targuist #1
Targuist #2
Terre brûlée, Ségou, Mali
Torès #4
Torès #5
Torrès #1
Torrès #2
Tracks, usines
François-Xavier GbréTracks, usines, 2014
117 x 571cm
Untitled
François-Xavier GbréUntitled, 2013
110 x 370cm
Untitled
François-Xavier GbréUntitled, 2015
12 x 16cm
Eko Atlantic #1, Lagos, Nigeria
Eko Atlantic #10, Lagos, Nigéria
Station CIDP #2, Ségou, Mali
Pont HKB #1, Cocody, Abidjan
Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire #07
Hôtel de France #1
François-Xavier GbréHôtel de France #1, 2021
160 x 120cm
L'Épave
François-Xavier GbréL'Épave, 2021
80 x 60cm
L'Éclat
François-Xavier GbréL'Éclat, 2021
160 x 120cm
Galerie Cécile Fakhoury
Gallery
Galerie Cécile Fakhoury
Abidjan, Paris, Dakar

Galerie Cecile Fakhoury opened its doors in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in September 2012. In May 2018, the gallery inaugurated its second space in Dakar, Senegal and a showroom in Paris, France. Shortly after, in March 2020, a new project space dedicated to emerging artists from Africa opened in Abidjan. In October 2021, Galerie Cecile Fakhoury inaugurated another gallery, opening in the 8th arrondissement of Paris on Avenue Matignon. The gallery promotes contemporary art from Africa and the Diaspora by providing visibility to the artistic diversity and creative spirit from the continent. Through its programming of solo and group exhibitions, participation in international art fairs, biennales, and collaboration with international galleries, Cecile Fakhoury is a leading force putting contemporary African art on the global map. The artists represented by the gallery are distinguished by their cultural identities and stories, they create a new language that crosses geographical boundaries and familiarities. They are observers of the world they live in, critics of society, and committed to their positions living within complex histories. In turn, they ask us to reconsider our own relation to the world. ...

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