‘Regard de La Porteuse’ ,2018

Acylic on canvas

43×43 cm

‘Matin’, 2015

30x60cm

acrylic on canvas

‘Djini San’ ,2015

160x74cm

Acrylic on canvas

Property of the artist

Courtesy Virginia Ryan Projects

Nature and acoustics are the defining aspects of my painting. My studio

is by the atlantic ocean – here, my work often responds to the star-lit sky;

that is why I often work in the calmness of the night. This is then connected

to the jazz music I love to listen to ; see all the dots in the paintings? They

are like a musical score.

Yubah Sanogo was born December 15, 1984 in Bingerville, Ivory

Coast; attending the Bingerville Applied Arts Center (technical

diploma in applied arts with honors). He was studio assistant in the

ateliers of Maitre Jacques Stenka and Australian artist Virginia Ryan.

His works have already been shown in Italy, and appear in the

catalogs and leaflet of prominent exhibitions in his own country.

Yuba now works at Kool Studio in the Unesco World Heritage Site,

Grand Bassam.

Yubah Sanogo work for the last few years evokes the energy

of the famous West African ‘Dozo’ hunters, and the strategy of

Hunter Spiders; his gaze incorporates both water and the sky into

the pictorial space. Indeed the dotted reliefs (which can be read

as synonymous interstitial openings or cracks) in these highly

concentrated paintings are representations of drops of water from

the sky, which invade the canvas and create significant forms; for

the artist, the element and immensity of water, a vital source of life,

expresses hope and courage which contributes to our daily life.

Recent exhibitions include:

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION

2016 Solo at the Case Bleu (Grand Bassam)

2015 Expo BICICI Amis des Arts

(Masters and Students of Ivory Coast)

2014 Solo at Koffi Yao Gallery (Ivory Coast)

2013 ARKADI 17th Edition (Ivory Coast)

2013 Remembrance of Africa from the collection

of Contemporary Art of West Africa

curated by Maurizio Coccia and Mara Predicatori /

Predicator Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary Trevi, Italy

2012 Museum of Civilization of Abidjan (Ivory Coast)

‘Esprit de L’Eau at the Italian Embassy in Abidjan

(Côte d’Ivoire) and Peroux (Italy)

2011 Collective at the Rotund Des Arts of Abidjan

2010 International Biennale of ARTE3 4th Edition (Italy).

‘Esprit de L’eau’ at the Charles DONWAHI Foundation,

Abidjan.

2009 Trainer at the NGO TERRE DES HOMMES (Italy)

and MESAD (Ivory Coast)

2008 International Biennial ADJE-PESSI (Bingerville)

Ivory Coast