A multifaceted and curious artist, Ange Dakouo works on drawing, painting, sculpture and even video, always testing more techniques and materials than gluing, rubbing or weaving.

 

By observing the work of Ange Dakouo, we could think of a textile sculpture, reminiscent of those of Abdoulaye Konate or the installations of El Anatsui.

 

A pupil of Abdoulaye Konate at the Balla Fasséké Kouyaté Conservatory of Multimedia Arts and Crafts in Bamako, Ange Dakouo admires the mastery of balance, the accuracy of the nuances and the color schemes of his mentor.

 

The meticulous technicality of El Anatsui's works gives him this desire to push his research ever further and the desire to surpass himself. Because by looking more closely at the work of Ange Dakouo, we discover a fine, careful and singular work.

 

Son of a printer, Ange Dakouo quite naturally took over the gray-gray paper diary for creators.

 

Trace of the past, archive of a memory, the newspaper which composes them freezes history and transports it in time. Ephemeral and fragile, this material is for the artist in the image of human life. Because it is a "harmonious universe" of woven links showing the interaction between each other that Ange Dakouo wishes to represent. Woven together, these small rectangles are reminiscent of the protective amulet of the newborn child. It is common, even systematic, that at the birth of a child, it is attached to his wrist or his neck. The ≪ gray-gray ≫ by Ange Dakouo also recall the protective amulets that make up the outfits of traditional hunters in West Africa.

 

It is, moreover, on the esoteric ideology of this brotherhood that the artist worked for his final thesis.

 

He was particularly interested in the aesthetics of these traditional outfits which will ultimately influence a large part of his work and make his ≪ gray-gray ≫ a work of great maturity.