M.I.A Gallery is pleased to announce “Lost Worlds”, the first US solo exhibition dedicated to the international painter/sculptor, Soly Cissé. There will be an opening reception with the artist in attendance on Thursday, May 17th from 6-9pm. The exhibition runs from May 17th through July 31th, 2012.
Born in 1969, Cissé graduated with honors from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts of Dakar, Senegal, and immediately started showing his work in France, Germany, Italy and England… In 2006, he exhibits at the Centre Pompidou as part of the “Africa Remix” touring exhibition.
With each stroke he releases himself from the burden of history and a society too far gone on the path of self-destruction. He denounces the excesses and the loss of values. His art is real; Soly Cissé is a painter of the universe. .His painting is poetic and brutal; it is contemporary and universal. For his first exhibition in the US – Lost worlds – Cissé embarks us on a journey around the theme of the inevitable duality of good and evil, of dream and reality, and of tradition and modernity.