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Ginette Daleu

Ginette Daleu (born 23 September 1977; died 9 November 2018) was an artist from Cameroon.

Ginette Daleu
Ginette Flore Daleu
Born(1977-09-23)September 23, 1977
Metet, Cameroon
DiedNovember 9, 2018(2018-11-09) (aged 41)
Known forCollage

Biography

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Ginette Flore Daleu was born in 1977 at Metet in Cameroon.[1] She was a degree from the Institut de Formation Artistique in Mbalmayo[2] and graduated in 2000.[3] She also attended the Libera Accademia di Belle Arti in Brescia in Italy.[4] Daleu had created art from a young age and knew she wanted to be an artist, against the wishes of her family.[5]

Daleu died at her home in Senegal on 9 November 2018, following an illness.[6]

Career

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In 2006 Daleu was part of a collective of artists who travelled from Douala to Dak'art, exploring how to revitalise art education in Cameroon along the way.[7] This project was called Exit Tour and the group travelled overland, meeting people and working with artists and students along the way.[8] This trip came out of work at ArtBakery, an organisation to encourage artists in Cameroon.[7] Working with and within communities became an important part of Daleu's practice.[9]

For Daleu, involvement with ArtBakery changed her practice from working on decorative art to exploring the aesthetics of imperfect places like Bessengué City.[10] Sometimes her work was drawn directly to the walls of the spaces she was exploring.[11] This led to collage and photography becoming hallmarks of Daleu's artistic practice.[10] A residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam produced work with attempted to "unpeel the skin of things".[12] Her work has been exhibited in Germany,[13] in Switzerland,[14] and in Italy.[15]

The World Bank sponsored an exhibition of work by Cameroonian artists in 2014, and Daleu was one of those featured.[5] She produced a new series entitled Architextures urbaines et Les introuvables. The work "Les introuvables" is a series of 8 photos printed on canvas that has been exhibited during the forth edition of SUD Salon Urbain de Douala in 2017.[16]

In 2018 Daleu was one of the artists commissioned by Videoart at Midnight festival of video art in Berlin.[17] The artist Antje Majewski collaborated with Daleu on a new installation called Le Trône, where video and painting explore German colonial legacies in the Cameroon.[18] She also exhibited at Dak'art in 2018.[19]

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    Daleu's 2013 Exhibition
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    2013 Exhibition
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    2013 Exhibition
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    Daleu, 2013
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    Bessengue City
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    Urban Scenes, Douala

References

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  1. ^ "Ginette Daleu". Archived from the original on 2019-02-27.
  2. ^ Schemmel, Annette (2015). Visual arts in Cameroon : a genealogy of non-formal training, 1976-2014. Mankon, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG. p. 221. ISBN 978-9956-763-99-3. OCLC 950196045.
  3. ^ Berndt, Klaus-Peter. "Künstlerporträt Sieben - Africa Contemporary Art Gabah". startnext.com. Retrieved 2020-02-26.[permanent dead link‍]
  4. ^ Tchidjé, David (2018-11-10). "Une âme artistique reste alors que s'en va GINETTE FLORE DALEU". FRAD'ART (in French). Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  5. ^ a b Cameroun, une vision - World Bank Group (PDF). 2014. p. 18.
  6. ^ Tchidjé, David (2018-11-10). "Une âme artistique reste alors que s'en va GINETTE FLORE DALEU". FRAD'ART (in French). Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  7. ^ a b "An Epic Art Journey through West Africa | Contemporary And". www.contemporaryand.com (in German). Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  8. ^ "Daleu Ginette, visual artist". www.artmovesafrica.org (in French). Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  9. ^ Forni, Silvia; Malaquais, Dominique (2018-09-02). "Village Matters, City Works: Ideas, Technologies, and Dialogues in the Work of HervÉ Youmbi". Critical Interventions. 12 (3): 294–305. doi:10.1080/19301944.2018.1532380. ISSN 1930-1944. S2CID 202402930.
  10. ^ a b Schemmel, Annette (2015). Visual arts in Cameroon : a genealogy of non-formal training, 1976-2014. Mankon, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG. p. 238. ISBN 978-9956-763-99-3. OCLC 950196045.
  11. ^ "Ginette Daleu". urbanscénos (in French). 2014-05-05. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  12. ^ "Ginettehome". adude.free.fr. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  13. ^ "Afrikanische Kunst Ginette Daleu (Malerin) | Fachprogramme für Klassenfahrten" (in German). 29 November 2012. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  14. ^ "Making Douala".
  15. ^ exibart_admin. "Ginette Flore Daleu - Bessengue: la materia racconta". exibart.com (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  16. ^ Pensa, Iolanda; Pucciarelli, Marta; Douala Bell, Marilyn; Nibbeling, Xandra; Siegenthaler, Fiona; Adukaite, Asta; De la Chapelle, Maud; Verschuren, Kamiel; Grandin, Lucas (2017). Public Art in Africa. Art et transformations urbaines à Douala /// Art and Urban Transformations in Douala. Genève: MetisPresses. p. 196. ISBN 978-2-94-0563-16-6.
  17. ^ "Ginette Daleu". kunstaspekte.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2020-02-26. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  18. ^ "Le Trône (The Throne), 2019". Antje Majewski. 8 November 2019. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  19. ^ "Le plasticien camerounais Abdias Ngateu nous ouvre son univers". Blasting News (in French). 2018-05-15. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
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