A self-taught painter, Assane GNING himself says that his art is a “gift from God.” He was only thirteen when he founded a workshop for decorating transport vehicles at the Colobane bus station in Dakar.

Frequenting the National Association of Visual Artists of Senegal (ANAPS) and the Professional Visual Artists of Senegal (APPS), Assane eventually immersed himself in the vicious circle of artists from the “Dakar School” in 1982 and subsequently benefited, through the Senegalese Ministry of Culture, from the allocation of a residence and workshop space in the Village des Arts in Dakar in 1998.

His work, imbued with naivety and sensitivity, evokes moments of life. Games, rituals, work, the subject is only a pretext to make the blues, yellows, and reds sing... in a veritable symphony. The brush reveals the intimacy of the place and the situation where joy and serenity reign, where the sensitive, simple, deeply warm and captivating world of Africa shines through. “SED'ART”? Is the sign posted at the entrance to his studio a significant detail, another indication that helps us understand why the artist's work is always imbued with naivety and sensitivity, in a rhythm of Negro inspiration, dear to the champion of Negritude, his mentor, the Poet President Léopold Sédar Senghor (LSS)?