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NEGUS is as NEGUS does

FAHAMU PECOU

Painting

153 x 132 cm

Founded in Chicago in 1918 by FentonJohnson, one of the city’s wealthiest African Americans, The Favorite Magazine claimed to be the "first and only weeklymagazine published by and for colored people”. It was stopped 1920. A referenceto the Statue of Liberty, in one hand the artist holds a Baoule statue (fromthe Ivory Coast) and in the other, what could be a copy of Notebook of a Return to the Native Land by Aimé Césaire.

FAHAMU PECOU
USA
Born in 1975

Born in Brooklyn, New York
Lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia


After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts inpainting and digital art from the Atlanta College of Art in 1997, Fahamu Pecou became a Ph.D. student at the EmoryUniversity’s Institute of Liberal Arts in Atlanta in 2012. Strongly inspired by the complexitiesof marketing, Fahamu Pecou has painted himself on the covers of famousmagazines such as George, Art Review or Art Newspaper, questioning the identity constructs he conveysbefore turning them on their heads. In an affirmation of his “negritude” or“blackness” defined in popular culture by “authentic” images linked to the bodyand appearance, Pecou often paints himself on the cover of invented magazinesor during photo shoots, defining himself as artist and master of his owndestiny and dismantling the constructions and interpretations imposed by massculture. He has won the ARTADIA Award (The Fund for Art and Dialogue) and theEmerging Artist Award of the National Black Arts Festival (Atlanta).
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