‘Naïve’ art on show at Zahara Gallery
Internationally-acclaimed artist, Mahamoudou Zinkoné will exhibit his work on Sunday, February 21 at the Zahara Gallery at Cantonments in Accra.
Also known as Babs, Mahamoudou Zinkoné already has a worldwide audience, having shown his work in Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, France, Germany and other places.
Known principally as a painter of ‘naïve’ or folk art, Babs’ scenes of daily life in West Africa have been collected by African, European and American art enthusiasts for nearly three decades.
His colourful paintings show the busy, interrelated and sometimes chaotic street and village life of West Africa in ways that illustrate his subjects with animation, humour and dignity.
His work usually shows the vibrancy of life in the cities and the villages of West Africa.
Overloaded trucks, motorcycles transporting hundreds of chickens, boys walking with barber-shop signs under their arms, street vendors and dozens of other characters often jostle for space in his paintings.
The 5.00pm exhibition at the Zahara Gallery, which specialises in West African contemporary and traditional art, is the first solo show of Babs’ paintings in Ghana.
