Modou Dieng, Palais Royale, Four Color Silkscreen Print, 28" x 21"
Modou Dieng, Palais Royale, Four Color Silkscreen Print, 28" x 21"
Modou Dieng, Palais Royal, Four Color Silk Screen Print, 28” x 21”, 2020
Printed at Watershed Center for Fine Art Publishing and Research in December 2020
Paper: Somerset Satin White 250gsm
Dimensions: 21” high by 28” wide
Edition: 1/50 -50/50, AP 1/5 -5/5, PP 1/4 -4/4
Printers: M. Letzelter, Edson Rosas, Isabel Campos Bedard
Palais Royal is a collage and drawing made from a series photographs taken by Dieng in his native town, Saint-Louis, Senegal. Digitally combined and then silk screened, this work represents, through the language of architecture, the colonial past of Senegal and the mosaic of eclectic métissage lifestyle that has grown upon it.
Modou Dieng was born in Saint-Louis, Senegal. He is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the symbolic and mythological power of pop culture through mixed media and hybrid materials. His work constructs a mural of archetypal cultural imagery filtered through the perspective of a split identity between Blackness and Western Philosophy. Dieng has exhibited internationally and is the co-founder of blackpuffin, a curatorial company based in Chicago, Illinois. Dieng holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco, CA).
Modou Dieng - A Postcolonial Landscape at Elizabeth Leach Galley