Julien Sinzogan was born in 1957 in Porto-Novo, Republic of Benin. He studied architecture in Paris at the École Spéciale des Travaux Public, and later ran a department of computer images before turning to painting professionally. He lives and works in France. Sinzogan has exhibited throughout Europe and Africa in both group and solo shows, including Spirit Worlds at the October Gallery, London (2010) and a specially-commissioned piece for the Uncomfortable Truths Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2007). Sinzogan's work subtly expresses the way of life informed and inspired by the Yoruba divinatory and religious system known as Ifa. The Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin in West Africa see life as taking a cyclical trhttp://theauctionroom.com/auctions/9...