Born in 1971 in Ziguinchor, Senegal. He lives and works in Keur Massar, Senegal. Once graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Dakar in 2001, Kassou Seydou took part in a two years residencies in Joal-Fadiouth, place of birth of Léopold Sedar Senghor, organized by the association “Portes et passages du retour”. Kassou Seydou’s painting is a story of the world. Each canvas is a mysterious narration, a depiction of an ideal world that the artist envisions. Each painting is an allegory wherein a series of symbols from various cultures, temporalities and geographies coexist. Put together, these symbols match and form the structural elements of the artist’s grammar. As if they were the foundations of a visual language, graphic lines dress up the paintings’ backgrounds. Their curvilinear patterns, endlessly declined, are signs of the creative ecstasy which gave life to them. They drive us to the limits of hypnosis.
