This vibrant artwork features a bold, expressionistic figure with a prominent, cartoonish face against a textured, abstract background. The piece employs a vibrant color palette of yellow, green, and red, with the central figure's exaggerated features and dynamic pose conveying a sense of energy and movement. The style and technique suggest a blend of figurative and abstract elements, showcasing the artist's distinctive approach to visual storytelling. The overall composition and the artist's intended message invite the viewer to engage with this thought-provoking and visually compelling work 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. ...
