Always All Ways clearly reflects Pascale Marthine Tayou’s own nomadic existence, moving from country to country, gathering and presenting impressions from all the countries he has passed on his way. He points at different levels in our culture production and cultural identities, and bridges the gaps between differences in identity and culture.
Always All Ways as a whole is one large organic and dynamic structure, built in situ. The visual noise and the material used create a disorientating, chaotic experience for the visitor.
Always All Ways is the result of close collaboration between the artist and 2 institutions: the Malmö Konsthall (Sweden) and the MAC.
Works accross the whole city
In Lyon, Pascale Marthine Tayou wants to exhibit, he says, “at anyone’s place”. That is one of the challenges: to exhibit Tayou’s work in an office, at school, in public space, or even in the museum...
Pascale Marthine Tayou’s work is exhibited in an art trail accross several areas of Lyon: a square, a church, a police station, a restaurant, shops….
Wednesday to Sunday, 11am - 6pm
At the museum
The artist
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Nom de l'artistePascale Marthine Tayou
Pascale Marthine Tayou was born in 1967 in Yaounde (Cameroon). He lives in Ghent (Belgium).
A Cameroonian, who migrated to Sweden and to France before settling in Belgium in 2003, Tayou frequently blends African and European symbols, creating a world which reflects our own. With humour, intelligence and a certain poetry, he captivates the viewer and provokes in him / her a multitude of questions. Literally absorbed by the Western world, Tayou is one of those artists who redefines post-colonial problems through his European experiences.
More information
« Like everyone else, I am three thousand years old» says Pascale Marthine Tayou. The artist takes on the history of the world and, wherever he stops, gets everyone there involved.
Known for his assemblages, paintings and installations, the materials for which are provided by objects discarded by society (recycled materials gleaned in Africa or from the nearby supermarket, piles of paper
torn into strips, gutted fridges, rags, used clothes…), Pascale Marthine Tayou deals with worrying, contemporary issues with a strong socio-political resonance.
Installations, collages, photos, sculptures, “dolls”, reappropriated objects, videos, new creations – through forty or so of his works, Pascale Marthine Tayou invites the viewer into his joyous, mysterious and bewitching universe, one that is marked by humour and which encourages the viewer to question his / her vision of the world, of the Other and of him / herself. Pascale Marthine Tayou’s work is an experience to be lived according to one’s own rhythm or feelings.
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Contrasts
The Poupées Pascale play on the contrast between their wooden base and the precious crystal, between ancient ritual ancestral and its contemporary rerouting.
Damocles is a forest of tree trunks suspended from the ceiling, a sort of godly wooden jungle, with the sharpened tips pointing downwards. This enormous trap made up of beams of wood foreshadows imminent danger. However, as the ambush is so airy, so obvious, it loses its threat: one could also imagine that these are gigantic sharpened pencils.
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Here & there
La palette du peintre evoques the spices from Bahadourian shop, in which « Poupées Pascale » are presented. Back & forth, here & there.
Garden Houses consists of eleven small houselike, hanging wall strutures, a jumble of garden houses. This installation appears and recalls a shantytown built out of photographic images and recycled materials – such as wood, plastic, metal, and glass – mixing both found material from Tayou’s native country Cameroon and commercial packaging and waste products associated with western cultures.
Informations supplémentaire programmation MAC
360° views of the exhibition
Informations supplémentaire programmation en dehors
The exhibition continues in the city
Catalogs
Catalogue Pascale Marthine Tayou
Date created: 08/26/2020
Changed date: 08/26/2020
346 pages
Bilingual: French/English
ISBN : 2-906461-84-9
45 €
