The Inequality of Parts… The Beauty Of The Whole by Barkinado Bocoum

Barkinado’s work often resembles an assembly of mosaics, each a part of something infinitely larger, and each oddly unsettling the other parts and yet they come together in a beautiful whole. The origin of this style of painting is simple in that initially he lacked the resources to purchase proper canvases and so he used simple A4 papers. As he filled each one, he simply added more and more of them, taping them together to create large figurative works. Later he realized that taping them together and off center seems to refract light and images in complex fractured portraits. Though each sheet has its own significance taken together they weave a whole albeit with multiple and distinctive perspectives. The gaze of his subjects is often weary and melancholy – almost as if their incredible beauty is too heavy a load to carry. It is this gaze that lends the added perspective of a peoples gazed upon – looking back at the world with a deep understanding that almost says: ‘you can’t even begin to understand me.’

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Announcement from aKAZ! ATL:

The trials and tribulations of running a trans-continental art gallery mean that sometimes:

the art gets here and the artist doesn’t, and sometimes, the artist arrives and the work does not!

Barkinado arrived on Monday this week minus his artwork. Air France just informed us that the artwork has been located – and – it is still in Dakar. They promise to expedite it. But clearly we can’t open the show this Sunday and so with a heavy heart we are rescheduling the Opening of Barkinado Bocoum’s ‘The Inequality of Parts … the Beauty of the Whole to Saturday, September 21 at 3:00 pm AND the PARTY will be even better. The good news is that Barkinado will hang out in the ATL until then and you will all still be able to meet him.

See you on Saturday, Sept 21 at 3:00 pm- and once again our sincere apologies.

Greetings,

Anja, Jumbe, Jean Patrick Guichard (Gallery Miriam) and Barkinado