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Malian,
b. 1961
Plate
circa 1990
Porcelain
1.25 x 13 x 12.875 in.
Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky
2022.2
An elephant, turtle, fish, and two shrimp parade in a carnival of animals across Diakité’s lively Plate. The artist spent much of his childhood in the rural village of Kassaro, Mali, before moving to the capital of Bamako as a youth. He remembers a childhood spent “catching lizards and protecting rice and peanut fields from birds and monkeys,” animals that frequently appear in his later clay work. Diakité cites the stories of his mother and grandmother as his first education, and his role as artist-storyteller is evident in the iconography of this plate. The narrative sense is heightened by the three-dimensionality of Diakité’s animals, an effect he achieves by applying a black glaze into which he incises patterning before applying a clear coat to the entire plate.
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