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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2018 | Piasa | Paris | Art Africain Contemporain | 97 | $****** - ****** | Untitled |
paintings
181 x 152 cm (71.26 x 59.84 in)
Acrylic, pastel and felt on canvas
Signed in the central part on the right
Aboudia (born in 1983, Ivory Coast)
Untitled, 2015
Acrylic, pastel and felt on canvas
Signed in the central part on the right
181 x 152 cmAboudia was born in 1983 in Abidjan in Ivory Coast, he lives and works between Abidjan and Brooklyn in New York. He was spotted by international critics in 2011 thanks to his works documenting the violence of the Ivorian crisis. In 2010, he was living in Abidjan when the riots broke out following the presidential elections. While many intellectuals and artists prefer to flee the civil war, Aboudia chooses to stay and work despite the danger. In the cellar near the Golf Hotel where he is holed up, Aboudia hears the whistling of bullets. Back in his studio, he paints what he saw of the scenes of violence taking place outside. Aboudia"s painting is full of children, but they are very different from the photogenic kids in idealized images of Africa. These children are painted in a naive and brutal way. The faces, in a permanent state of surprise, are not yet jaded by the vision of scenes of ordinary violence. Aboudia paints in the nouchi fashion, a mixture of street styles that he makes his own, a source of escape in response to deprivation, which can be found on the walls of neighborhoods around Abidjan. If his work is sometimes compared to that of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Aboudia, who cannot be compared to any other contemporary artist, claims multiple influences. During his first visits to the Tate Modern, he was impressed by the large formats of Pollock and the loose gestures of Cy Twombly. He draws his inspiration from the street art of the youth of Abidjan, Tokyo, Silicon Valley and even more from the Brooklyn neighborhood where he lives. Aboudia's career was propelled internationally following the exhibitions “Pangea I & II New art from Africa and Latina America” at Saatchi in London. He is one of the rare West African artists represented in New York, London, Paris... and on the African continent.
