"Dear Goddy" is a commemorative furniture project. It pays tribute to the Cameroonian artist Goddy Leye, who died suddenly in February 2011. This project will offer a place for contemplation, symbolic, reachable and peaceful, to his relatives and the art community, in the environment he had chosen for living and creating. It would also modestly contribute to perpetuate ArtBakery. The memorial is a continuous stone ribbon, coming out from earth, reaching the sky and inviting a visitor to sit and contemplate with Goddy Leye. A plant makes it alive and a glass medallion engraved with his portrait makes his aura shine. The stone will be settled in Bonendale, and solemnity enhanced with a natural bed. If you wish to financially contribute to the making of this commemorative furniture project for Goddy Leye, please contact Sandrine Dole: sandrinedole@hotmail.com; +212 (0)6 13 16 43 13.

 

Goddy Leye was a pioneer and a source of inspiration for artists in Africa and elsewhere around the globe. Goddy Leye died in the hospital of Douala of Malaria and Typhoid Fever. A wake in his honour was held at the ArtBakery, Bonendale,on 24 February 2011 and he was buried the following day in his home village of Ndu, Cameroon. Estella Mbuli, Goddy’s sister and the administrator of the ArtBakery,and Adeline Chapelle,Goddy's co-worker and arts administrator, will be the contact person for ArtBakery for the time being. Contact via: artbakerybonendale@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bessengue, Douala Cameroon - Central Africa October 12th 2002 - November 3rd 2002 City Project In the month of October 2002, a group of four artists from Indonesia, Spain, South Africa and Cameroon will interact with the people of Bessengue (10000people live here) in the city of Douala/ Cameroon. Their action will be developed following three main axes: 1- The installation of a small radio with a range of 1km, 2- The remake of a sequence of the most popular film watched in Bessengue, with members of the population acting in the new movie 3- The construction of a temporary shelter/house with equipment coming from the thrash cans in Amsterdam/Europe. These axis are intended to overlap on one another. Artists: James Beckett, South-Africa/Amsterdam, Hartanto, Indonesia/ Amsterdam, Jesus Palomino, Spain/ Amsterdam, Goddy Leye, Cameroon/ Amsterdam.