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| Mor Gueye - Artist |
Mor Gueye -Artist . He is the internationally recognized master of the Senegalese art of reverse glass painting and his paintings are held by many public collections worldwide. At age 80, Mor Gueye continues to run an active studio in Dakar, Senegal where his work is avidly sought by private collectors.
| The light of his paintings reflects the strength of a blazing sun, the colors draw their strength and tone in the land and people of the African continent. |
His work has appeared in a number of exhibitions in Africa and Europe. He and his son Serign Gueye were featured in the exhibition A Saint in the City at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, and in the exhibit’s companion catalogue written by Allen and Mary Nooter Roberts. Mor Gueye uses a technique known as “reverse glass painting,” where he paints on the back of glass panes. He is an ardent “Baye Fall” (a Sufi sect of Mouridism in Senegal). As a young man, Gueye recounts that Amadu Bamba, the great leader of the Mourides, came to him in a dream that led to his first painting. While Gueye works in a range of genres, most of his paintings depict scenes from Mouride history and life. Gueye considers
himself an historian, and his real joy is in painting scenes of Bamba's life. He feels his paintings are ‘like prayers’, which convey baraka or blessings. As the race of the panther, the light of his paintings reflects the strength of a blazing sun, the colors draw their strength and tone in the land and people of the African continent.
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