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Ousmane Sow

Born October 10, 1935 · Dakar, Sénégal

Died December 1, 2016 · aged 81

Ousmane Sow, born on October 10, 1935, in Dakar, and died on December 1, 2016, in the same city, was a Senegalese sculptor. Ousmane Sow was born in Dakar to a mother from Saint-Louis and a father from Dakar, thirty years his senior. He grew up in Reubeuss, one of Dakar's toughest neighborhoods, where he received an extremely strict upbringing during which his father instilled responsibility in hi…

Known For

Ousmane SowOusmane Sow · 1996
Ousmane Sow
★ 10.01996
MovieDocumentary
Ousmane Sow, Le soleil en faceOusmane Sow, Le soleil en face · 1999
Ousmane Sow, Le soleil en face
★ 10.01999
MovieDocumentary
This is the story of time passing, at the slow pace of Ousmane Sow, and of time rushing by, from the birth of a work to its unveiling one spring day in Paris on the Pont des Arts. For a year, while preparing the exhibitions in Dakar and Paris, Béatrice Soulé witnessed the creation of Two Moon, Sitting Bull, Chief Gall, and Crazy Horse by Ousmane Sow—Sioux and Cheyenne chiefs who, gathered along the Little Bighorn River, won the most important Native American victory against the American army in 1868, a victory that led to the death of General Custer. In the intimacy of the sculptor's home in Dakar, a home itself a place of creation, she shares with us her emotion at seeing works emerge from the sand, works that seem to journey from death to life.
Le Jardin des CorpsLe Jardin des Corps · 1994
Le Jardin des Corps
★ 8.01994
MovieDocumentary
Once upon a time there was a morning, noon, evening and night when the inseparable shadows of man told us about memory... Interview with Ousmane Sow, life sculptor, for the first part of a series entitled Black Memory.

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Ousmane Sow, Le soleil en faceOusmane Sow, Le soleil en face · 1999
Ousmane Sow, Le soleil en face
★ 10.01999
MovieDocumentary
This is the story of time passing, at the slow pace of Ousmane Sow, and of time rushing by, from the birth of a work to its unveiling one spring day in Paris on the Pont des Arts. For a year, while preparing the exhibitions in Dakar and Paris, Béatrice Soulé witnessed the creation of Two Moon, Sitting Bull, Chief Gall, and Crazy Horse by Ousmane Sow—Sioux and Cheyenne chiefs who, gathered along the Little Bighorn River, won the most important Native American victory against the American army in 1868, a victory that led to the death of General Custer. In the intimacy of the sculptor's home in Dakar, a home itself a place of creation, she shares with us her emotion at seeing works emerge from the sand, works that seem to journey from death to life.

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