Afi Nayo
L'homme CactusYear 2023
Medium Screen print on Arches 88, 300gr 100% coton
Dimensions 40 x 30 cm.
Edition 15 + 3 AP
To coincide with her 'Cheek to Cheek' exhibition with Philippe Anthonioz, Togolese artist Afi Nayo is offering her limited edition 'Red Fish'. Although the fantastic silhouettes sketched by the artist are not governed by the rules of figurative realism, it is easy to identify animals such as an elephant, a cheetah or, in this case, a fish. The goldfish is a symbol of luck, development and positive transformation on a more spiritual level. This is Afi Nayo's desire to create a new language from symbolic figures.
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Born in Lomé in 1967, Afi Nayo lives and works between France and Togo. After her first solo exhibition in Lisbon in 1996, she went on to hold numerous exhibitions in France, Europe, the United States and Africa. In 2002, she took part in an artists' residency in Togoville and won 1st prize. In 2010, the African Art Museum of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. acquired one of her works. In 2013, she created a monumental sculpture for the IFAN gardens, which she unveiled during the Dakar Biennale in Senegal.
For her exhibition at Château La Coste, the Togolese-born artist's intimate, incantatory work is represented by some twenty pieces: paintings on wood and clay cubes in black, red and white earth colours, engraved with animals, chimeras and inscriptions, like the hieroglyphs of an unknown language. The artist composes her works like pages of writing, filling them from top to bottom and left to right. In his most recent creations, an alchemy operates between the work of wood, patterns and colours and confers his work a sophistication unique: a soft and velvety rendering that recalls the wealth of weavings of Ghana and Togo.
Afi Nayo often uses square formats, as evidenced From the sky, an unpublished work of large format (122 x 122 cm) where the delicacy of patterns contrasts with the raw material of wood. On two minimalist tables designed by Joseph Dirand, we can also discover engraved clay cubes, inspired by a visit to Artigas and Miró's studio in Gallifa in 2013. The telluric nature of these works finds a powerful echo in Philippe Anthonioz's sculptures in greyed wood. Together, they are transformed and take on a new dimension.
Artists Afi Nayo
Name of the work L'homme Cactus
Year 2023
Medium Screen print on Arches 88, 300gr 100% coton
Edition 15 + 3 AP
Dimensions 40 x 30 cm.
Signed Yes
Numbered Yes
Certificate of authenticity No
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