A Fondation Zinsou presentation:
Co-founded by Lionel Zinsou:Bruce Clarke...does not define the identity of the artist but it invites visitors to experience a work that stimulates reflection on the contemporary world and the representation he makes. Far from the "dictates" and the tradition of a "decorative art complacent" Bruce Clarke offers his work as a springboard for reflection, putting art in the service of thought, pushing the viewer to question freely on fundamental principles. Art, for Bruce Clarke is an excellent way to express themselves, to inform and take a look at the world around us by creating a query, a thought. As a still picture, the work is there to ask a question, his work suggests more than it reveals, leaving no room for indifference. More than ever, the viewer is active and free to work, reclaiming its own history...[more via Google Translate]
The first private Beninese foundation devoted to African contemporary art was born in Cotonou in June 2005. Stemming from a family initiative, the Zinsou Foundation is resolutely interested in culture and social action right from its beginnings. Its president Marie-Cécile Zinsou moreover ensures that the museum of the Foundation remains to be a space earmarked for favouring meeting and exchange of artists who have dedicated their works to contemporary art.An exhibition space, the museum of the Zinsou Foundation attempts to seek recognition and dissemination of a dynamic brand of African Art that is far too often relegated to a past golden age and strives to do this as far as possible within its scope.