Soly Cissè Senegal, 1969

If we deny that in the current historical condition, art is no longer a means of communicating our contemporaneity, painting is certainly the furthest way to tell about today. However, painting still remains the most sensitive and the most suitable means of appropriating the artist's inner thrust and transmitting the deepest human feeling. Matter is the continuous becoming of reality and being, matter has the ability to show its past, transform itself and become the future and to be and manifest its present. In Cissè's work, matter becomes existence, which...