Ginette Daleu Explained

Honorific Suffix:Ginette Flore Daleu
Birth Date:23 September 1977
Birth Place:Metet, Cameroon
Known For:Collage

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

Biography

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

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. 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. 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. 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]

References

  1. Web site: Ginette Daleu. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20190227120521/http://fatoukandesenghor.com/i-be-lady-o-qui-sont-elles-2/. 2019-02-27.
  2. Book: Schemmel, Annette. Visual arts in Cameroon : a genealogy of non-formal training, 1976-2014. 2015. Langaa Research & Publishing CIG. 978-9956-763-99-3. Mankon, Cameroon. 221. 950196045.
  3. Web site: Künstlerporträt Sieben - Africa Contemporary Art Gabah. Berndt. Klaus-Peter. startnext.com. 2020-02-26.
  4. Web site: Une âme artistique reste alors que s'en va GINETTE FLORE DALEU.. Tchidjé. David. 2018-11-10. FRAD'ART. fr-FR. 2020-02-26.
  5. Book: Cameroun, une vision - World Bank Group. 2014. 18.
  6. Web site: Une âme artistique reste alors que s'en va GINETTE FLORE DALEU.. Tchidjé. David. 2018-11-10. FRAD'ART. fr-FR. 2020-02-26.
  7. Web site: An Epic Art Journey through West Africa Contemporary And. www.contemporaryand.com. de. 2020-02-26.
  8. Web site: Daleu Ginette, visual artist. www.artmovesafrica.org. fr. 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. 10.1080/19301944.2018.1532380. 202402930. 1930-1944.
  10. Book: Schemmel, Annette. Visual arts in Cameroon : a genealogy of non-formal training, 1976-2014. 2015. Langaa Research & Publishing CIG. 978-9956-763-99-3. Mankon, Cameroon. 238. 950196045.
  11. Web site: Ginette Daleu. 2014-05-05. urbanscénos. fr-FR. 2020-02-26.
  12. Web site: Ginettehome. adude.free.fr. 2020-02-26.
  13. Web site: Afrikanische Kunst Ginette Daleu (Malerin) Fachprogramme für Klassenfahrten. 29 November 2012. de-DE. 2020-02-26.
  14. Web site: Making Douala.
  15. Web site: Ginette Flore Daleu - Bessengue: la materia racconta. exibart_admin. exibart.com. it-IT. 2020-02-26.
  16. Book: Pensa . Iolanda . Pucciarelli . Marta . Douala Bell . Marilyn . Nibbeling . Xandra . Siegenthaler . Fiona . Adukaite . Asta . De la Chapelle . Maud . Verschuren . Kamiel . Grandin . Lucas . Public Art in Africa. Art et transformations urbaines à Douala /// Art and Urban Transformations in Douala . 2017 . MetisPresses . Genève . 978-2-94-0563-16-6 . 196 .
  17. Web site: Ginette Daleu. kunstaspekte.de. de. 2020-02-26. 2020-02-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20200226134458/https://kunstaspekte.art/person/ginette-daleu. dead.
  18. Web site: Le Trône (The Throne), 2019. Antje Majewski. 8 November 2019. en-GB. 2020-02-26.
  19. Web site: Le plasticien camerounais Abdias Ngateu nous ouvre son univers. 2018-05-15. Blasting News. fr. 2020-02-26.

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