Romuald Hazoumè: Gallery Talk

Romuald Hazoumè will discuss his work practice and new works within Cargoland, his third solo exhibition at October Gallery, London. Hazoumè is a multi-faceted artist, who works across a wide range of media, including sculpture, photography, painting and film. His powerful creations mark him as one of the most innovative and exciting personalities to emerge from Africa.

Hazoumè’s work first came to prominence in the U.K with the inclusion of his now signature “masks”, appropriated from plastic petrol cans, in the Saatchi Gallery’s Out of Africa show, in 1992. In the past twenty years his work has been widely shown throughout Europe, the United States and Asia, including the British Museum, the Guggenheim, Bilbao, the Museum of Arts and Design, New York and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Currently his works are being exhibited in We Face Forward: Art from West Africa Today, at Manchester Art Gallery. In 2007, Romuald Hazoumè was awarded the Arnold-Bode-Prize at documenta 12. Please reserve a seat for this Free event at Event-brite.com