The Art of Rodrigue Dakouri
Featured Pieces
This mixed-media painting is a vibrant, chaotic symphony of symbolism, color, and socio-political commentary, grounded in African identity and ecological consciousness. At the center of the composition is a white rhinoceros—ghostly, almost ethereal—standing solemnly against a searing yellow backdrop. Painted on its flank is an abstracted map of Africa, filled with the flag of Kenya, evoking themes of heritage, territory, and possibly extinction.
This provocative mixed-media piece reads like a deconstructed socio-political cartoon—part satire, part lament—laid bare on a chaotic, sun-bleached yellow canvas. The painting collides multiple registers of visual culture: collage, graffiti, African symbology, and absurdist figuration, each competing for dominance in a space that feels deliberately unfinished, like a cultural palimpsest.
This mixed-media canvas positions itself at the intersection of politics, cultural symbolism, and semiotic play. The ground is saturated with a deep yellow that operates almost like a field of tension, against which disparate elements clash and converse.
On the right, the cut-out image of Barack Obama is framed within an imperfect white circle, a kind of halo or target, surrounded by green brushmarks that oscillate between foliage and stains. Obama’s contemplative gesture—fingers pressed to lips—reads as both reflective and silenced, caught between states of authority and containment. This image, stripped from its photographic origin and grafted onto the painted surface, becomes a cipher: less about the man himself than about what he represents—political hope, disillusionment, or the mythologizing of Black leadership in global consciousness.
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