Omar Ba
Eclosion
Galerie Daniel Templon now officially represents artist Omar Ba and is proud to present for the first time in Belgium, his first solo show with the gallery in Brussels. Titled « Eclosion », the exhibition develops through an installation of painted cardboards, a reflection on interbreeding, power and the complex relationships between Africa and the Western world.
Omar Ba gave up the abstraction of his early years to embrace an ambiguous figuration fully open to interpretation. Painted on large corrugated cardboards, his paintings exhale a sense of fragility contrasting with the force of the subjects. With a seemingly chromatic simplicity, Omar Ba creates an uncanny bestiary, mixing abstract patterns and luxurious nature, with emblems of power or hints of war.
Combining oil painting with gouache, ink and crayon, they follow a process of permanent hybridization. Titles such as “Historical Monument – UN” or “Plateform of Trust” allude to the issues of exploitation, interdependence, dialogue.
The last speech
The artist
Born in 1977 in Senegal, Omar Ba lives and works in Dakar. His paintings, produced using a variety of techniques and materials, represent political and social motifs open to multiple interpretations. His artistic vocabulary raises historical and timeless questions while formulating a wholly contemporary artistic message. Omar Ba’s iconography features personal metaphors, ancestral references and hybrid figures. This combination of heterogeneous elements illustrates his desire to abolish boundaries and categories. His work, with its enigmatic nature and poetic intensity, rejects all forms of didactic narrative, seeking instead to express his subconscious and his symbolic interpretation of the real
