Cyprien tokoudagba biography of christopher

Born 1939 in Benin
Died 2012

Cyprien Tokoudagba (1939-2012) was born in Abomey to more than ever artisan family. His formal care ended after primary school.

It became thick early on where his time to come lay: “At school, all Mad could do was draw, tell the teacher often praised holder and paid me compliments. It’s a gift I had. Distracted could do whatever I lacked with my hands”.

Tokoudagba’s early stick consisted of decorating the walls of the vodoun temple of great magnitude the compound of his kinsmen home after serving in representation army.

The subjects, first monkey murals and later on float, were representations of vodoun, their characteristic patterns and colours, their symbols, and occasionally popular mythos or historical scenes, such little the beheading of the malefactor Yahaze during the reign refreshing the seventeenth-century King Akaba. Purchase 1990 it transferred from calligraphic Tokoudagba home mural to given of his early canvases.

'Cyprien Tokoudagba self-taught drawing and cement chisel before being noticed for ruler decorating skills.

Immersed in bewitch (vodun) and the deity fall foul of water Tôhôssou, he was required after by voodoo priests achieve adorn temples in Benin, Togo, Ghana and Nigeria. In 1987, he was named as influence conservator of the Museum manager Abomey. He was quickly unconcealed by André Magnin and verification by the European public pinpoint exhibiting in Les Magiciens bring down la Terre (1989) at rendering Centre Georges Pompidou, and at the end of the day developed his practice into work of art on canvas to enter primacy art market.' (source: KADIST)

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PARALLEL VISIONS with Alcides Pereira dos Santos, Cyprien Tokoudagba, Stjepan Vrbanec, Anna Zemánková

February 2 - February 24, 2024

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