{"id":250440,"date":"2025-02-10T14:58:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T19:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_news&p=250440"},"modified":"2025-02-10T14:58:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T19:58:35","slug":"cheick-diallo-exhibit-southern-guild-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/cheick-diallo-exhibit-southern-guild-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Malian Architect Cheick Diallo Hosts Debut U.S. Solo Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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February 10, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Annie Block\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Malian Architect Cheick Diallo Hosts Debut U.S. Solo Show<\/h1>\n\n\n

His furniture pieces <\/strong>are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (as well as France\u2019s Centre Pompidou and Germany\u2019s Vitra Design Museum). Yet Malian architect Cheick Diallo<\/a> has yet to have a solo gallery exhibition in the U.S. That changes this winter with \u201cTaama\u201d at Southern Guild Los Angeles.* \u201cIt refers to my long path of discovery, creation, and experimentation, and that creating itself is a journey, one that takes commitment and courage to continue,\u201d Diallo says of the show\u2019s moniker, which means voyage <\/em>in Malink\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s what visitors will go on at the gallery, where his 25 works on display, mostly sculptural seating, range from the early 1990\u2019s, after Diallo graduated from the \u00c9cole d\u2019Architecture de Rouen and ENSCI, Paris, to today. All reflect his studio practice, which centers on a revival of West African craft and what he calls \u201cpoor\u201d materials\u2014locally sourced detritus such as bottle tops, fishing wire, leather scraps, and old tires. One of Diallo\u2019s most famous designs, the 2002 S\u00e9gou rocker, is handwoven of nylon thread; his recent T\u00eate de choux, which resembles a head of cabbage, is made from paper. \u201cEven after all these years,\u201d reflects the 64-year-old, \u201cI\u2019m still learning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cheick Diallo photographed in Mali. Photography by Adriaan Louw\/courtesy of Southern Guild.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Te\u0302te de choux is a 2024 chair in cement-bound paper and steel by Malian architect Cheick Diallo that\u2019s featured in \u201cTaama,\u201d his solo exhibition at Southern Guild Los Angeles from February 13 to May 3.* Photography courtesy of Southern Guild.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Gatigui, 2018, in leather and steel. Photography by Hayden Phipps\/courtesy of Southern Guild.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Fe\u0300re\u0300, 2024, in leather and steel. Photography by Adriaan Louw\/courtesy of Southern Guild.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

* <\/em><\/strong>At press time, Southern Guild L.A. was unharmed by the California wildfires and its exhibitions were going ahead as planned.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n