Making Art With Recycled Materials
Workshop with Visual Artist Momar Seck
Join celebrated artist Momar Seck as he takes you through the process of giving objects a new life by creating art with recycled materials.
Momar Seck's work will be on view at La Maison Française from April 17 to 21, with the exhibition "United Colors of Africa: Environments." More information and registration for the opening here.
This event is co-sponsored by the La Maison Française, Grey Art Gallery at NYU, and NYU Africa House.
Date: April 18, 2023
Time: 5:30pm ET
Venue: 14A Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
Speaker:
Momar Seck is a visual artist, painter and sculptor, Momar Seck is a citizen of the world and a transmitter of knowledge.
A graduate of the Ecole Nationale des arts in Dakar in 1994, he received a scholarship from the Swiss Federal
Commission for Culture for the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Geneva. He obtained a doctorate in Fine Arts from the University of Strasbourg in 2012. Momar Seck earned many awards including the UNESCO Prize for the promotion of visual arts.
Originally from Senegal and Switzerland, Momar Seck taught for thirty years in Switzerland, including ten years as head of the Arts and Design department at the International School of Geneva. After this long stay in Europe, he decided to return to Senegal in 2022 to contribute to the cultural development of his country. He explains his artistic approach in his book Art africain contemporain, ma démarche en partage (Baobab Edition).
Passionnate about sharing, he organizes residencies for Swiss and French artists in Senegal and offers training opportunities and fruitful exchanges to young Senegalese artists and young Swiss and international students.
He tries to raise awareness by working on the themes of the environment, the intercultural, identity and permanent existential questions. His reflection focuses mainly on the use of recycled materials and objects.
Momar exhibits regularly in Europe and Senegal, he has participated in exhibitions in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Switzerland (Palais des Nations, Rath Museum in Geneva, Kunsthalle in Bern), the United States, and Cuba among others.
In May 2022 he participated in the Biennale of Contemporary African Art in Dakar at the Senegal pavilion at the Museum of Black Civilizations. Currently his exhibition “Environnement 2.0” is visible at the contemporary art space Ngala in Zurich until March 15, 2023.