BARKINADO BOCOUM

Born in 1978 in Kaolack (Senegal), Barkinado BOCOUM lives and works in Dakar.

This young professor of color and fashion design at the Institut de Coupe Couture et de Mode in Dakar, graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Dakar in 2005.

He followed additional training in painting at the Alanus Hoschschule in Bonn (Germany) in 2007 thanks to a scholarship offered by the DAAD; in cultural management at BEM with the British Council; trainee as a fashion design professor at the Haute Ecole Francisco FERRER in Brussels (Belgium) in 2011 and studies in Marketing Communication in 2013.

A visual artist, he carefully compartmentalizes his paintings like so many miniatures, elements of a mosaic whose sum reveals his intentions and his indisputable technical mastery in so many ways.

the form that colors with interesting moves back and forth from the abstract to the figurative.

His working technique defines him as an architect with ambition to surpass himself. The lines identify it in the figures, but these figures only take on meaning in the assembly with others by transforming the limits into the impossible.

Obviously, he is a very happy young man with work reflecting a reality in a thoughtful context.

His technique of assembling small geometric figures or recomposing photos seen from different angles to arrive at large drawings is an indication of his quest for freedom and expressiveness.

Winner of the 1st prize for “Africa in question” in 2009 and the Prize of the International Organization of the Francophonie at the Biennale of Contemporary African Art Dak'Art 2010, Barkinado BOCOUM is part of this generation of artists who breathe new life into Senegalese and African visual arts.

He participated in international group exhibitions from the start of his artistic studies in 2001.

He has exhibited in France, Belgium and Germany. In England, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, the United States, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco….