id: 312075 accession number: 2018.204 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.204 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:58.505000 Sauveteur 3, 2014. Pascale Marthine Tayou (Cameroonian, b. 1966). Crystal, raffia, cloth, rubber, plastic bags, chicken feathers, wood (probably eucalyptus), paint, tempera, nail polish, string, foam, plastic, adhesive, and other mixed media; height: 132 cm (51 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Trust 2018.204 © Pascale Marthine Tayou Studio, RICHARD TAITTINGER GALLERY, New York, and GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Habana title: Sauveteur 3 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2014 creation date earliest: 2014 creation date latest: 2014 current location: creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Trust copyright: © Pascale Marthine Tayou Studio, RICHARD TAITTINGER GALLERY, New York, and GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Habana --- culture: Cameroon technique: Crystal, raffia, cloth, rubber, plastic bags, chicken feathers, wood (probably eucalyptus), paint, tempera, nail polish, string, foam, plastic, adhesive, and other mixed media department: African Art collection: African Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Pascale Marthine Tayou (Cameroonian, b. 1966) - artist Pascale Marthine Tayou is internationally-acclaimed artist and arguably the best known Cameroonian artist working today. Born in Nkongsamba, Cameroon, in 1966, Tayou abandoned his law studies to become an artist. He learned informally by participating in the bustling contemporary art scene of Douala, Cameroon’s capital, and then honed his skills independently. He emerged in the 1990s as a socially-conscious artist who took on tough subject such as HIV/AIDS pandemic and broader socioeconomic conditions in Africa. Subsequently, he began to focus attention on the larger human condition, tackling hot-button issues such as economic inequality, globalization, cross-cultural exchange, and mobility, advanced from his own personal experience of itinerancy. Currently based in Ghent, Belgium, Tayou’s eclectic practice encompasses large-scale installation, sculpture, site-specific work, public art, and performance. He cemented his international reputation after participating in major exhibitions, including the Dak’Art Biennale (1996), Sidney Biennale (1998), Documenta 11(2002), Tate Modern’s Triennial (2009), and the Venice Biennale (2009). His recent solo exhibitions include Fresh Kiss, Galleria Bottegantica, Milan, Italy (2018); Chapitres, Solo Show, Mu.ZEE, Oostende, Belgium (2018); Colorful Line, Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York, USA (2018). Group shows include African Metrópolis, MAXXI, Rome, Italy (2018); Dak’art, Biennale de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal (2018), and Triennale, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2017). He is represented in major collections such as the Tate Modern, Guggenheim Museum (Abu Dhabi), Pizzuti Collection (Columbus, Ohio), SMAK, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (Belgium), National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark), and Fowler Museum (UCLA, Los Angeles). --- measurements: height: 132 cm (51 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: African art rotation opening date: 2019-02-20T05:00:00 African art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20, 2019-October 5, 2020). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Art Africa Fair, Cape Town, ZA (2018)', 'opening_date': '2018-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Sunrise Surprise, workshops of Pascale Marthine Tayou, Ghent, BE (2016)', 'opening_date': '2016-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'World Share. Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles (November 2, 2014–March 1, 2015)', 'opening_date': '2014-11-02T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Pascale Marthine Tayou Studio, Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York, NY, in partnership with Galerie Continua, Milan, IT, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 2018 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2018- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Rodrigues, Gemma, Leora Maltz-Leca, and Pascale Marthine Tayou. World Share: Installations by Pascale Marthine Tayou. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2015. page number: p.44 url: Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019 page number: Mentioned: p. 20; reproduced: p. 21, fig. 8, p. 24, fig. 12 (left foreground). url: Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth. “Acquisitions 2018: African Art.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 59, no. 2 (March/April 2019): 8-9. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 9. url: --- IMAGES