This surreal painting features a vibrant and chaotic composition. The canvas is filled with a variety of abstract shapes, lines, and colors, creating a dreamlike and disjointed atmosphere. Prominent elements include a central figure with a cartoonish, childlike appearance, surrounded by various symbols and gestural marks. The style appears to blend elements of expressionism, surrealism, and primitivism, with a raw, spontaneous quality to the brushwork and mark-making. The overall effect is one of playfulness and subversive energy, suggesting the artist's intention to challenge conventional perceptions and tap into the subconscious. This work reflects the experimental and unconventional spirit of contemporary art. ...
Zinkpè's paintings follow tortuous paths where the figures, halfway between human and animal, evoke games of power, masquerade or sex, no doubt alluding to the human comedy. His unique style is recognisable on canvas: intimate, powerful and provocative. As for his sculptures, they are sometimes made of rolled-up hessian and sometimes of small wooden figures fused together. These variations on the theme of twins in the beliefs of southern Benin are as many surprising explorations. ...
Founded in 2019 in the 7th arrondissement of Paris in a Haussmann-style setting, SEPTIEME opened its second space in September 2022 in Cotonou, Benin, in a 200m2 warehouse in the center of the city, to offer exhibitions in a new format to audiences in the West African sub-region. It made sense for SEPTIEME to deploy its vision spatially and to help push back the frontiers of contemporary art, as well as to contribute to the construction of new contemporary art strongholds. ...
