Baay Xaaly Sene
Country: Senegal, South Africa
Baay Xaaly Sene
Baay Xaaly Sene creates colourful, shapely pieces of furniture by cutting, hammering and soldering unconventional metallic materials like barrels, train tracks and wheels together in a unique manner. He transforms these mundane objects into beautiful items that combine and almost elegant aesthetic with a rugged history.
Sene was trained and later taught at the school his father founded, the Technical Professional and Manual Training Centre at Rufisque (Senegal). He also collaborated with the collaborated with the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy and the Art and Design University in Helsinki.
When he was left an immense warehouse of Rufisque (Senegal) he followed in his father’s footsteps. He helped create a center which now instructs over one hundred 12 to 18 year olds. “ WE created this center to assist the young people of the city and to open a weaving lane to them. It is exceptional because there is not other vocational training.” The pupils of the school are taught skills of industrial design by reproducing the work of the instructor.
“I am very happy to carry out an object and to transmit that technique. It is something that is in me. Work is my principle of life and faith.”
The Centre is entirely financed by the sales of the work.
Baay Xaaly Sene: deceased October 2004. His brother began again since the follow-up of the workshop.
Training:
- 1977-1990: Centre de Formation Manuelle Professionelle et Technique de Rufisque, Senegal
- 1992-1994: Universite Technique de Twente, Holland
Shows/Exhibitions:
International exhibitions:
- 1995: "The Red Bike" L'Academie d'Art Gerrit Rietveld, Holland Festival
- 1996: Collabaration with Universite d'Art et de Design D'Helsinki
- 1998: Biennale des Arts de Dakar (DAK'ART)
- 2000: Cite de la Musique, Paris
- 2002: Biennale Internationale de Design, St.-Etienne
- Plateau des Restos du Coeur, Marseilles
- 2003: Artistic Residency a the Atelier Metal. Beaux-Art des Paris (directed by Michel Salerno)
- 2004: Bienelle Internationale des Design, St.-Etienne
- La Table Ronde
