Theodore Diouf
Senegal, 1949
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BiographyTheodore Diouf was born in 1949 in Djigod (Senegal). He was trained at the Dakar Craft Techniques Teaching Center (modeling and decoration), then at the Dakar National School of Arts, from 1969 to 1971 in painting, engraving and ceramics, before joining Pierre Lods and Iba Ndiaye in the "plastic research" section. Several of his models were made in tapestries by the Manufacture de arts décoratifs in Thiès. He made working stays in Zurich (Switzerland) in the second half of the 1980s and eventually settled there. He has long participated in traveling exhibitions of contemporary Senegalese art organized by the State of Senegal. His works have been presented in New York as well as in Bonn or in Paris and Lagos. His painting is quite characteristic of the Dakar School.