Lot 36: Pascale Marthine Tayou (Cameroonian, born 1967) Das Kapital (1995) 62 x 85cm (24 7/16 x 33 7/16in) each.

Pascale Marthine Tayou (Cameroonian, born 1967)
Das Kapital (1995)

1. 'Projet construction d'une machine de mutations bouclees de consciences entre individus'
2. 'Projet machine technique de l'amour no. 3'
3. 'Projet fabrication d'un autre coffre fort pour biens publics'
4. 'Projet machine a rendre fou les fous'

two signed and dated 'PASCALE MARTHINE TAYOU 95' (centre right); one signed 'P.M. TAYOU 95' (centre right)
mixed media on paper
62 x 85cm (24 7/16 x 33 7/16in) each.
(4)
Footnotes

Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist in 1995.
Private collection, South Africa.


In 1995 Tayou began an extended series of sketches based on the text 'Das Kapital'. Using chalks, coloured felt tip pens, ink and ballpoint pens on the back of recycled posters, Tayou executed these works very rapidly, in freehand, almost mechanically. Without ever stopping, thinking, or looking back, Tayou could only see the whole once he had finished. Even though they seem formless and out of control, viewed together they are like a series of interconnected dynamic networks that have been infiltrated by a form of energy which seeks to dismantle them. As Tayou has stated, "When I was young, I wrote and I drew. It was my way of rebelling."