Bleu no. 1

Abdoulaye Konaté Malian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 341

Abdoulaye Konaté’s monumental fabric-based works breathe fresh life into West Africa’s rich and dynamic textile traditions. Drawing upon textiles as his primary medium, Konaté composes abstract and figurative tableaux. Bleu no. 1 is part of a recent series of labor-intensive assemblages of delicately cut and sewn layered fringes of different lengths presented in a solo exhibition at the 2014 Dakar Biennale. In this intensive exploration of the spectrum of blue tones, Konaté pays tribute to the indigo dye that has been so central to West African aesthetics.

#1534. Abdoulaye Konaté Blue no.1

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Bleu no. 1, Abdoulaye Konaté (Malian, born 1953), Cotton, dye, Malian

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Bleu no. 1, Abdoulaye Konaté (Malian, born 1953), Cotton, dye, Malian
Bleu no. 1, Abdoulaye Konaté (Malian, born 1953), Cotton, dye, Malian
Bleu no. 1, Abdoulaye Konaté (Malian, born 1953), Cotton, dye, Malian

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