Pascale Marthine Tayou

Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1967) is a Cameroonian artist. He lives and works in Ghent, Belgium and in Yaoundé, Cameroon. He began his career as an artist in the 1990s, and has carried out exhibitions in Cameroon, Germany, France, and Belgium, among others. His work combines various mediums and seeks to artistically redefine postcolonial culture and raise questions about globalisation and modernity. Quotes I make proposals, and it’s up to the public to make their choices! I travel the world gathering joy of living wherever I go PASCALE MARTHINE TAYOU 11 April 2024 For me, it’s most important first to see the simple side of things I see my work as a lubricant that facilitates entry I’m in a space of observation from my little corner. Like a little grain of sand, observing! There are leaders, people who carry the big pebble, who carry the whole pile of sand. But the little grain of sand is also part of the whole On the fine art scene, I become a quote-unquote star. By way of photography, I have found an artistic response to that star, that image I kill, I assassinate a vision of myself because I don’t plan to wear the image that has been made of me, that image of being an artist Love is a round-trip ticket If I love you, that means divorcing myself I shouldn’t love what I am in the other person. I should love the other person because they are themselves At the same time, love is a divorce. Therein lies the mystery of life I’m in a space of observation from my little corner 2 April 2015 Colour is like a letter in an alphabet, Letters are forms used to write languages. Colours are tools to make things talk Pascale Marthine Tayou: something Universal 27 February 2019 We can see the journey on several planes, it can be physical, it can be mental, so it can be a displacement, from a mass to a point, it is precisely the journey of a human being who starts from one point to another point To travel is to collect foam for me, identity is never unique, it is never individual We don’t have an identity, we have identities because it is imposed on us It seems that sometimes according to certain meanings we can believe that we are linked to the origins of our ancestors, we are linked to the origins of our race, we are linked to the thought of the first people who belong to your village The origins of others are not our origins until the moment we enter the other’s room The environment is first and foremost a question of mentality I am not a green person, I am as much of a polluter as you are I am as much a polluter as the others. The polluter is my neighbour. I am an accomplice. We are complicit in our ignorance The best way to talk about the environment is to just be human, kind, kind to your neighbour, kind to the weed in the forest. When it becomes too political a score, it no longer has much effects, because you are linked directly to a group of thought COLOURFUL LIFE 12 December 2020 I like collecting things. Everything that comes into my hands presents a possibility, a potential, and always has a multifaceted life The life that we all lead is enveloped by a terrifying darkness. So one always has to have the courage to bring out the ligh I think that children, who are more innocent, are better at wearing their masks than us adults Pascale Marthine Tayou: School of Clowns 22 March 2016 I’m discovering myself through others’ eyes Art has always been in search of peace Chaos isn’t necessarily negative. Chaos is the only order possible, but we need to understand how it can be used to allow us to live in an advanced, spiritual way Art is a state of mind, like a group of people making soup Artists In Conversation: Michelangelo Pistoletto and Pascale Marthine Tayou with Maryam Eisler February 2024 The world is my inspiration; it is so large and full of objects which through their diversity help me bring about solutions to my existential questions I am a student of life and what motives me in first instance is the discovery of the path that would lead to the ideal man. All of the paths that I borrow, so to speak, are worth it. They are all grains of sands that together create a beautiful beach Unmasking Leading Contemporary African Artist Pascale Marthine Tayou 21 March 2018 External links Category:1967 births Category:Living people Category:Artists from Cameroon