Boomerang

Pascale Marthine Tayou’s exhibition at Serpentine Galleries demonstrates his ability to combine issues of individual and national identity and global consumption.

  Pascale Marthine Tayou, <i>Pascale's eggs</i>, 2014. 
Alabaster eggs

. Photo: Ela Bialkowska, Okno Studio. 
Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins
Pascale Marthine Tayou’s exhibition, his first in the UK since 2008, will see the Serpentine Sackler Gallery populated by a diverse mix of sculptural forms that demonstrate Tayou’s unique visual language based on archetypes, made and found objects and traditional craft.
Mysterious human forms and fantastical beasts – such as the 100 metre snake of Africonda – incorporate materials such as cloth, wood, plastic, glass, organic matter and consumer waste combined with an artisanal skill.
Pascale Marthine Tayou, <i>Africonda</i>, series, 2014. Wash cloth, mask, dry hay, wood. Photo: Lorenzo Fiaschi. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins
Top: Pascale Marthine Tayou, Pascale's eggs, 2014. 
Alabaster eggs

. Photo: Ela Bialkowska, Okno Studio. 
Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins. Above: Pascale Marthine Tayou, Africonda, series, 2014. Wash cloth, mask, dry hay, wood. Photo: Lorenzo Fiaschi. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins

Tayou, who began studying law before deciding instead to become an artist, began exhibiting in the early 1990s – a time of political and social upheaval across West Africa. With works often produced in situ, Tayou is renowned for combining found and discarded objects and materials – often sourced locally – with a skilled and playful sense of craftsmanship.

“Boomerang” is produced by the Serpentine Galleries in collaboration with BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels.


4 March – 17 May 2015
Pascale Marthine Tayou
Boomerang

curated by Rebecca Lewin
Serpentine Sackler Gallery
West Carriage Drive
Kensigton Gardens, London

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