Profile
Amadou Sanogo, Bambara artist was born in Ségou, Mali in 1977.
He lives in Bamako. The National Institute of Arts awards a diploma to Amadou in Bamako, a reputed Art School in West Africa. His manager Abdoulaye Konaté will appreciate his unstructured work.
Amadou will paint on all kinds of textile support salvaged in the local markets and will then reinvent his own pictorial codes. He tells the story of his country, just as much as more recent events, or his life experiences.
Amadou Sanogo is an artist who expresses himself with symbols appearing simple while evoking big depth topics like our identity within our societies.
Amadou exhibited in several biennials like Dak' art as well as in many fairs among which 1.54, Contemporary Art Fair in London and in New York, or even AKAA Contemporary Art Fair in Paris. Amadou Sanogo’s work travelled across the world (Portugal, Senegal, Belgium, Ivory Coast, France, Morocco, Burkina Faso, Great Britain).
«I wonder a lot about Bambara words, the Malian social and international closing system which are incapacities for our development. I wonder how to stop this closing». Amadou Sanogo