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Soly Cissé is a mixed media painter and sculptor from Dakar and is one of Senegal's most celebrated artists. He paints a lot with brush, hand and knife.
Cissé's work, as a portal where the imagined and real worlds converge, intuitively explores notions of duality and repetition; tradition and modernity, the spiritual and the secular. Soly refuses to imitate and abhors illustration. His work creates a new world, populated by creatures that are neither fully human, nor fully animal, nor fully mythical. Le Demond (translated: The demon) shows excellent examples of this.
More work by Soly Cissé can be seen at www.sulger-buel-gallery.com/artists/45-soly-cisse/works and www.instagram.com/soly.cisse and www.artprice.com/artist/180908/ soly-cisse?cl=en