Omar Ba: La Prophéte des Gens de Durban

Author: Omar Ba, Alain Quemin, Klara Tuszynski
Publisher: Galerie Guy Bärtschi Genève/Acacias, Hales Gallery London, Galerie Anne de Villepoix Paris, Galleria Giuseppe Pero Milano
Year: 2014
Pages: 128
ISBN: 997-82940287345

Dakar- and New York–based mixed-media painter Omar Ba (born 1977) creates surreal scenes of violence and fantasy draw from a wide and often dark portfolio of themes: despotic warlords of the present, traditional folklore, colonial oppression and the pharaohs of ancient Egypt.