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Abdoulaye Guindo Dogon cast metal figures. Largest: Height (excluding wooden base): 83.5 cm (32.9 inches) Price £350 Medium (3 figures): Height (excluding wooden base) 45.5 to 46.0 cm (17.9 to 18.1 inches) Price £180 each Small: Height (excluding wooden base) 32.5 cm (12.8 inches) SOLD
The above examples of Guindo’s sculptures are available.
Abdoulaye Guindo is a Dogon by birth but lives in Bamako, the capital of Mali. There he works as a plumber and in his spare time makes these traditional Dogon elongated figures from scrap brass, copper and the like. The Dogon are an ethnic group living in the central plateau region of Mali, south of the Niger bend in the Mopti region and have made such figures for centuries. Many seeing the image above will note the resemblance to the work of Alberto Giacometti, who lived in Paris from the early 1920s and who would have no doubt seen examples of Dogon figures such as these there, as Mali was a French colony at the time. These sculptures are not an original idea but it is fair to say that they have a much greater link with the original art that the rather expensive copies that Giacometti produced.
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