This abstract artwork features a striking combination of colors and shapes, creating a surreal and unsettling visual narrative. The composition is dominated by a distorted human figure, rendered in a rough, expressionistic style, with prominent limbs and an anguished expression. Surrounding this central figure are various symbolic elements, including a mysterious blue creature and a discordant pattern of shapes and splatters. The overall tone evokes a sense of unease and inner turmoil, suggesting the artist's intention to explore themes of the human condition and the darker aspects of the psyche. This piece reflects the artist's unique style, blending elements of symbolism, expressionism, and a deeply personal, introspective perspective. ...
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. ...
