Mamadou Fall Dabo (1951- ) has exhibited widely and even spent time as an artist in residence in
Maryland. He lives in Senegal and graduated from the Beaux Arts Institute. Dabo uses oils and
gouache to paint ideas spurred by his social conscience, sacred forests and the spiritual world.
Both his paintings here deal with the latter. Together We Shall Go to Heaven gives one an
uplifting feeling as two people holding hands are beckoned by another figure while two groups of
people wait in the clouds. The way the paint has been applied lends a mysterious feeling to the
composition. In Accueil (The Reception) we see the textured orange red canvas dominated by the
suggestion of a large ethereal figure in the background while groups of people convene, as if
awaiting a prophecy.
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