Franck Abd-Bakar Fanny

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Franck Abd-Bakar Fanny (1970– July 3, 2021) was an Ivorian photographer.[1][2]

Career[]

In 2013 Fanny was one of four artists selected to represent the Ivory Coast at the 55th Venice Biennale.[3]

In 2014 he was included in the exhibition The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, which toured to the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia,[4] and the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C..[5] In 2018 he received the Prix de l'Uemoa at the 13th Dak'Art festival.[6]

He died July 2, 2021 in Abidjan.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ "Heaven". africa.si.edu.
  2. ^ a b "Décès de Franck Fanny, disparition brutale d'un photographe autodidacte | 7info". | 7info (in French). 3 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Africa in Venice | Frieze". Frieze.
  4. ^ "The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists at the SCAD Museum of Art". DAILY SERVING.
  5. ^ Loria, Keith (29 July 2015). "Visions of afterlife at National Museum of African Art". Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News.
  6. ^ "Le monde de l'art en deuil : Le photographe Franck Fanny n'est plus - Abidjan.net News". news.abidjan.net (in French).
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