Ousmane Sow was born in Dakar in 1935. Sculpting since childhood, then while later practising as a physiotherapist, it is only at the age of Fifty years ago he decided to devote himself entirely to sculpture. Revealed in 1987 at the French Cultural Centre in Dakar, where he presented his first series on the Nuba wrestlers, the artist exhibited six years later, in 1993, at the Dokumenta of Cassel in Germany. Then, in 1995, at Palazzo Grassi, on the occasion of the centenary of the Venice Biennale. His exhibition at Pont des Arts in spring 1999 attracted more than three million visitors. Since then, his work has been exhibited in some twenty venues, including the Whitney Museum, in 2003, in New York for part of the series on the Battle of Little Big Horn. He works in series and is interested in the ethnic groups of Africa and then America. Drawing his inspiration from photography as well as from cinema, history and ethnology, Ousmane Sow’s art finds again an epic breath that was thought lost.