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Ousmane Sow
Senegalese sculptor
Ousmane Sow (10 October 1935 – 1 December 2016) was a Senegalese sculptor of larger-than-life statues of people and groups of people.
Life
Sow was born in Dakar, Senegal, on 10 October 1935.[2]: 39 After the death of his father in 1956, he left Dakar to study in France, where he obtained a diploma in physiotherapy.
He returned to Senegal after it became independent in 1960 and started a practice in physiotherapy. He later went back to France and practised there, but returned to Senegal in 1978.[3][4]
He died in Dakar on 1 December 2016 at the age of 81.[4][5]
Work
Sow was inspired by photographs by Leni Riefenstahl of the Nuba peoples of southern Sudan, and from 1984 began to work on a series of larger-than-life sculptures of muscular Nuba wrestlers.
To make them, he developed a series of new techniques and materials.[2]: 41 They were show