Baro Sarré Sénégal, b. 1986

Baro Sarré, real name Alhassane Baro Sarré, is a contemporary visual artist, born June 11, 1986 in Dakar, Senegal. He emigrated to France at the age of two with his Senegalese parents and grew up in an environment conducive to creativity.

He still lives today in the Paris region with his wife Sarah, an accomplished entrepreneur in the world of beauty, and their two children who inspire him every day.Baro belongs to a happy family of eight children including a twin brother, all creative in their field. From a young age, Baro Sarré was passionate about drawing, influenced by cartoons, particularly Dragon Ball Z. This fascination with drawing leads him to spend entire days creating and inventing characters, a passion that has never left him.

After a classical education, Baro Sarré entered a competitive examination for a school of Applied Arts in the Paris region, specializing in visual communication. This training reinforced his interest in graphic arts and modern technologies, laying the foundations for his current artistic signature. During his academic career, he explored drawing, painting and sculpture together. Later, he also trained in photography for his series "Human Spirit".

This curious person, this hyper-creative spirit, this history enthusiast and particularly that of Africa, this graphic design expert, passionate about art and Hip Hop, defines himself as an "Afropean" visual artist, in love with humanity. The reinterpretation, in an ultra-modern digital aesthetic, of ancestral scarifications, these indelible marks engraved on faces, has become his artistic signature. Would we dare then to speak of an artistic “scar”?

In his designs inspired by the “Niass” as he calls them in the Wolof language, translating both beauty and resilience, individuality and universality, Baro Sarré sees it as a form of writing that carries messages, allowing him to express the stories and emotions that are bubbling inside him.

Among the many facets of this fusion of identity that he explores through his art, we find a striking duality in the artist: on one side, an effervescence, an ardent passion, an overflowing solar energy, and on the other, an immense wisdom that he deeply connects to his Africancultural heritage. Baro is a patient man, aware of the value of time and work, respectful of the words of the elders, and who has learned to listen more than to speak.