Viye Diba
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Viye DibaSenegal, 1954
Viyé Diba is a professor at the National School of Fine Arts in Dakar, and an internationally acclaimed artist whose work has been seen in many exhibitions, galleries, and museum collections in Africa, Europe, and the United States. Diba is deeply interested in the media with which he works. He takes locally woven strips of cloth ordinarily used for shrouds, and sews them together as his canvases. He mixes paints with sand and other local substances to add color and texture.
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