Cyprien Tokoudagba

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Cyprien Tokoudagba (1939 - 5 Mee 2012) bụ onye na-ese ihe si na Abomey, Benin.Palace Sculptures of Abomey: History Told on Walls Francesca Piqué, Leslie H. Rainer - 1999 - Page 108 "Cyprien Tokoudagba with several of his sculptures, which depict various deities and other folk figures. His art has been exhibited at the Pompidou Center in Paris. Photograph by Susan Middleton, 1996. Sculpture by Cyprien Tokoudagba in ..."Politique Africaine  N-059-Le Bénin - Page 54 "Etaient présents Amidou Dossou, avec ses masques Gélédé, et Cyprien Tokoudagba, avec des terres cuites peintes, qui tous deux ... Cyprien Tokoudagba sera encore présent, cette fois avec les frères Dakpogan, dans une autre importante ..."Slavery in Art and Literature: Approaches to Trauma, Memory and ... Birgit Haehnel, Melanie Ulz - 2010 -- Page 230 "The choice of Cyprien Tokoudagba to create them speaks for itself. Cyprien Tokoudagba is as contemporary Beninese artist whose works of art are in the Pigozzi Collection as well as in many other cultural institutions around the world."

Ọ malitere ịrụ ọrụ dị ka onye na-eweghachi ihe ngosi nka Abomey n'afọ 1987, mgbe e were ya n'ọrụ iji mepụta ihe osise mbụ nke kọrọ ọtụtụ akụkọ na akụkọ Dahomey mgbe ọ na-eme emume ndị eze n'otu n'otu maka ihu obí eze ọhụrụ Eze Glelé, n'etiti obí eze nke Abomey nke gọọmentị Benin dozighachiriri.

Tokoudagba gara n'ihu na omenala nke bas-relief ọ bụ ezie na ojiji nke simenti na ihe osise na-ere ahịa, ebe ọ na-emepụta ọrụ na canvas, frescoes na ihe ọkpụkpụ. N'afọ 1989, Cyprien hapụrụ Benin iji gosipụta na SãoMagiciens de la Terreʹ na Paris, France. E gosipụtara ọrụ Tokoudagba na mmemme "Ouidah '92", nke mere emume nka Vodun sitere na Benin na African Diaspora na Ouidah, Benin na Febụwarị 1993.
E gosikwara ọrụ ya na ebe ngosi ihe mgbe ochie ndị a: ụlọ ọrụ Smithsonian - National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC; Musée Dapper, Paris, France; Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany; Hayward Gallery, London, Englands; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Francia; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; São Paulo Biennale, Brazil.

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