Galeria Palácio Galveias – Campo Pequeno 29 September until the end of October
Tuesday to Friday - from 10 a.m to 7 p.m
Saturdays and Sundays - from 2p.m until 7p.m. Free Entrance
Malick Sidibé was born in 1935 into a Peul family in a small village of Mali. He graduated in I952. After being noticed for his talent as a draftsman, he was admitted to the School of Sudanese Craftsmen in Bamako.
He designed the decoration of Gerard Guillat's (also known as “Gégé la Pellicule”) “Photo Service” store, who offered him a job as his apprentice. That’s how he started in photography in 1956. He opened the “Studio Malick” in I958 at Bamako's centre in Bagadadji, on 30th Street, Corner I9, where he still prints his portraits and repairs cameras nowadays. The wildness of the 1950’s and the coming of independence gave birth to a new generation of photographers who were totally involved in the cultural and social life that they recorded. Malick Sidibé, was a pivotal character in all this, highly appreciated by young people. He was always at the clubs' soirees where the young learned new dances that came from Europe and Cuba, and dressed elegantly in Western clothes. In I957 he was the only reporter in Bamako who covered all the events, festivities and surprise-parties. On Saturdays these parties lasted until dawn and continued through Sunday on the banks of the river Niger. This on-the-spot coverage provided simple pictures, full of truth and complicity. From his photos an insouciance and spontaneity emerges: he captured the playful partying, full of laughter and life. He quit this activity in 1978 but continued his studio photography and repairing cameras. When his work gained an international reputation, new horizons opened up for him. People flock to his studio, magazines commission photo-reports, and he is invited almost everywhere in the world for exhibitions and conferences. Malick Sidibé gained recognition beyond the borders of his country. Malick Sidibé was awarded the International Prize of the Hasselblad Foundation in 2003 and a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 52nd Venice Biennale Contemporary Art Exhibition in 2007 and many other major awards. Now doclisboa 2010 brings to Lisbon a highly selected exhibition of Malick Sidibé’s work, produced by Hasselblad Foundation. 85 photographs to see until the end of October at Palácio Galveias.
Exposição de 85 fotografias do fotógrafo maliano.
De 29 de Setembro até final de Outubro, de 3ªF a 6ªF, das10:00 às 19:00
Sábados e Domingos, das 14:00 às 19:00
Galeria Palácio Galveias – Campo Pequeno
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Malick Sidibé was born in 1935 into a Peul family in a small village of Mali. He graduated in I952. After being noticed for his talent as a draftsman, he was admitted to the School of Sudanese Craftsmen in Bamako.
