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Prés du Goualoup

24. Yamou

"Lien infini"

published at 26/06/2018
Lien infini, installation de Yamou au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Prés du Goualoup, 2016 - © Éric Sander

Yamou's handiwork at Chaumont-sur-Loire celebrates the unity of nature and highlights the fact that “all of the components of a metabolic process are useful to another process”.

“The figure-of-eight structure linking the hornbeam and chestnut trees evokes the inexhaustible cycle of nature, the link that exists between all life forms and which reminds us of our own history and our own link with the plant world - without end.” Yamou

“What sets Yamou's sculptures quite remarkably apart is that they are covered with hundreds of nails in reference to the N’Kondé statuettes from Bas Congo. The small statues, usually anthropomorphous or zoomorphic, are studded with nails and metal strips. These fetishes, supposedly endowed with supernatural forces, were used for casting a spell or putting a curse on someone... By putting nails in the presence of plants, the artist seeks to set a double process in motion: the technique that waters the helexine to feed it oxidises the metal of the nail. In other words, the water added makes one part of the sculpture grow at the same time as it deteriorates the other.” Michel Gauthier

The structural matter – metal nails and tar – harks back to a project initiated by the artist a few years ago “on the cohabitation and interaction between living matter – fertile, plants, photosynthesis – and sterile matter – tar, metal, etc. This cohabitation highlights the principle of a world in continuity in which life makes up but one part of an infinite Whole”.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Yamou
MOROCCO
 
 
Born in 1959 in Casablanca, Yamou splits his time between Paris and Tahannaout, south of Marrakesh. After graduating from the Sorbonne with a DEA (French postgraduate degree) in sociology, he would go on to study drawing at the University of Toulouse le Mirail before turning his attentions to painting and sculpture. In 1990, he held his first exhibition in the Étienne Dinet Gallery in Paris.
 
Yamou has since exhibited in several galleries in Morocco and other countries. The plant world forms a key source of inspiration for him. His work reveals the interpenetrations of plants and interlacings between the plant components.
His cactus sculptures studded with nails have been praised in a number of international art journals. In his paintings, the artist shows an interest in the organic world. Petals, corolla, are examined closely by the artist to reveal the riches they harbour within.
 
“Yamou is the figure of a painter in the garden - a tireless defender of living organisms. In his “world canvasses”, the life force bursts out in cellular, germinative or liquid forms. Inspired by the infinitely large and the infinitely small, it builds a bridge between the microscopic world and the immense cosmos.” Marie Moignard
Complete Biography

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014
Atelier 21 Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
Regard Sud Gallery, Lyon, France
 
2013
Mamia Bretesche Gallery, Paris, France
 
2012
Atelier 21 Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
Fondation Omar Qattan, London, United Kingdom
 
2010
Bernard Chauchet Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Arcannes Gallery, Rabat, Morocco
 
2009
Atelier 21 Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
Lucie Weill & Seligmann Gallery, Paris, France
 
2008
Noir sur blanc Gallery, Marrakesh, Morocco
 
2007
Plume Gallery, Paris, France
Thirteen Langton Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
 
2006
Venise Cadre Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
French Institute of Marrakesh, Morocco
Delacroix Gallery, Tangier, Morocco
 
2005
Saint Germain Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
Ephémère Gallery, Montigny-le-Tilleul, Belgium
Bab El Kébir Gallery, Rabat, Morocco
 
2004
Dar Bellarj Foundation, Marrakesh, Morocco
Lucie Weill & Seligmann Gallery, Paris, France
Le Safran Art Centre, Amiens, France
 
2003
Chantal Melanson Gallery, Annecy, France
Matisse Art Gallery, Marrakesh, Morocco
 
2002
Courant d'art Gallery, Paris, France
Ephémère Gallery, Montigny-le-Tilleul, Belgium
Chantal Melanson Gallery, Annecy, France
 
2001
Château de Castelnau-Bretenoux, France
 
2000
Xenios Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
Yamou, Musée de Marrakesh Museum, Morocco
Anima Gallery, Paris, France
 
1999
ADP Gallery, Orly, France
 
1998
Les Anciens Réservoirs, Limay, France
Al Manar Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
 
1997
Garces Velasquez Gallery, Bogota, Colombia
 
1995
Hélène de Roquefeuil Gallery, Paris, France
Al Manar Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
 
1993
Al Manar Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
 
1992
Tour de Purgnon / Galerie Médiatique, Die, France
 
1991
Régine Deschînes Gallery, Paris, France
Tour de Purgnon / Galerie Médiatique, Die, France
 
1990
Etienne Dinet Gallery, Paris

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014
Maroc contemporain, Arab World Institute, Paris, France
Singapore Art Fair, Singapore
 
2013
Traits d'union, Paris et l'art contemporain arabe, Villa des Arts, Rabat, Morocco
L'Atelier, itinéraire d'une galerie, 1971-1991, Bab Rouah National Gallery, Rabat, Morocco
Symbiose de deux mondes, Palais Namaskar, Marrakesh, Morocco
Borj d'Essaouira, Morocco
 
2012
Leila Heller Gallery, New York, USA
 
2011
Paris et l'art contemporain arabe, Villa Emerige, Paris, France
Marrakesh Art Fair, Atelier 21 Gallery, Morocco and Dominique Fiat Gallery, Paris, France
Expo-atelier, CDG Foundation, Rabat, Morocco
Voyage à Tahannaout, Loft Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
Mundo Interpretado, Dominique Fiat Gallery, Paris, France
Art Dubaï
 
2010
If Gallery, Paris, France
Marrakesh Museum, Morocco
Art Paris, France
 
2008
Brazilian Art Museum, São Paulo, Brazil
Art Paris
 
2007
Contemporary History Museum, Moscow, Russia
 
2006
Festival TransMéditerranée, Grasse, France
 
2005
Cristobal Gabarron Foundation, Valladolid, Spain
Fes Saïs Gallery, Fes, Morocco
Artexpo, Geneva, Switzerland
 
2004
Cinq peintres du Maroc, Kuwait
Yamou-Binebine, Actua Foundation, Casablanca, Morocco
Olympia, London, United Kingdom
Interférences, Amiens, France
 
2003
Vestige, Bab Rouah National Gallery, Rabat, Morocco
Plantations, Abbaye de Jumièges, France
 
2002
Bruno Barbey / Yamou, The Botanical Museum, Brussels, Belgium
 
2001
Peintres du Maroc, Brussels, Belgium
 
2000
Museum of Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
Racines, City of Saint-Etienne, France
Paysage, Coprim Foundation, Paris, France
 
1999
Paris-Casa, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France
Le Comptoir Gallery, Sète, France
Art dans la ville, Saint-Etienne, France
Visions contemporaines, Essaouira, Morocco
Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow, Poland
 
1998
Ute Stebiche Gallery, Lenox, USA
 
1997
Gallery of Europe, Paris, France
Coprim Foundation, Paris, France
 
1996
Itinairance, Toulouse-Le Mirail University, France
 
1995
Fragments d'imaginaire, French Institute, Casablanca, Morocco
 
1994
Centre des Rencontres Internationales, Asilah, Morocco
 
1993
Identité Altérité, UNESCO, Paris, France
Nadar Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
 
1992
Bucharest Museum, Museum Bistritsa, Romania
 
1991
Atelier Gallery, Rabat, Morocco
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Lien infini, installation de Yamou au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Prés du Goualoup, 2016 - © Éric Sander
Lien infini, installation de Yamou au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire - © Éric Sander
Lien infini, installation de Yamou au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire - © Éric Sander
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