Baye Mballo Kébé's Artwork
The work of Senegalese artist Baye Mballo Kébé is highly diverse, featuring a number of major themes and concerns of an aesthetic, societal and spiritual nature, including maternity and the female con…
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Baye Mballo Kébé is a Senegalese visual artist, decorator, graphic designer, silkscreen printer, scientific photographer, museum technician, batik and traditional dyeing trainer, consultant, illustrator of scientific books and producer of advertising materials. He is a Paris Critique gold medallist, a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres de France et du Sénégal, and a Grand Prix humanitaire de France winner. He is the inventor of the "Xatim Art" technique (xatim means writing in Wolof), in which words and calligraphic writing become plastic attributes: words thus become forms, colors and vibrations with lyrical and dramatic accents.
The work of Senegalese artist Baye Mballo Kébé is highly diverse, featuring a number of major themes and concerns of an aesthetic, societal and spiritual nature, including maternity and the female con…
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