Romuald Hazoume, artist and art
Born 1962, Birth Porto Novo, Benin.
The artist lives and works in Porto Novo, Benin.
Style and technique, exhibitions: Installation art, Sculpture Objects, Documenta Kassel,Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
The central installation takes a market vendor’s cart that would once have carried Coca Cola, beer, plastic toys, jugs, footballs, brushes, razors and pans, and subverts it into a biting critique of the consumer encounter. Where once hung newly manufactured products, waiting for consumption, we now find empty shells and spent materials – the debris of capitalist exchange.
Hazoumé’s masks conform more to the recovery of their materials than to Yoruba traditions; however, there are also important links with this heritage. He has said about his masks that he sees them “exiting” or “departing.”
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La Bouche du Roi is a multi-media installation, the main components of which are 304 ‘masks’ made from black plastic petrol cans, a CD of sounds and voices, and a short film detailing the lives of motorcyclists who run petrol between Bénin and Nigeria, a form of modern day slavery…
Found piece, 2005
gasoline cans
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