WINNERS SHOW PAINTING 3rd edition of the AFRO PEPITES SHOW:
·•● Winner
of Category AFROS PEPITES : MIADANA
// Madagascar, France // Figurative
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MIADANA interrogates her travelling memory, searching
for inspiration...
Title of the painting in competition:
RAZANA
One video: Exposition à la galerie des Carmes (Toulouse)
Her site: www.myspace.com/miadana
Social networks: www.facebook.com/miadana
INFO for ORGANIZORS, AGENTS,
MEDIA,… :
MIADANA is based in Toulouse
(France) // Contact Pro : aurelia.miadana@gmail.com
Biography: Painter graphic illustrator from Toulouse, Miadana interrogates her travelling
memory in search for inspiration to build her artistic universe.
Her inspiration source feeds itself from her meetings, trips through Europe, Madagascar
and from street art.
Mixing techniques, she juggles with paintbrush, pencil, pen and spray…
·•● 2nd
of Category AFROS PEPITES: MOUKAM MERLIN // Cameroon // Figurative ●•·
MOUKAM MERLIN, creates on his paintings the soft ethnic face of his
daily life.
Title of the painting in competition:
LE PATRIARCHE
His site: www.myspace.com/moukam_merlin_art
Social networks : FACEBOOK
INFO for ORGANIZORS, AGENTS, MEDIA,… :
MOUKAM MERLIN is based in Yaoundé (Cameroon)
// Contact Pro : moukamarmand@yahoo.fr
Biography:
Merlin
Armand Nitcheu Moukam is born in Western Cameroon
in a small village called BANKA.
His passion for drawing started in his childhood; at 4 y.o. he was already scribbling
on anything he could find. Very soon he developed a real passion for pencil.
Only in 2007 he decided to paint, after having thought about it for a long
time. Attracted by the colours of nature, his work is figurative with some
realist tendency; daily life sceneries, history and African culture are the
faces on all his paintings; as he taught himself the techniques, he
experimented several techniques and means such as pencil, oil paint etc; MOUKAM MERLIN has already exhibited in several
places in Cameroon.
·•●3rd
of Category AFROS PEPITES: KORBLAH
// Benin // Abstract
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KORBLAH, bring you in his imagination inspired
tolerance, dialogue and peace ...
Title
of the painting in competition: KUTOU
His
site:
None
Social
networks: FACEBOOK
INFO for ORGANIZORS, AGENTS,
MEDIA,… : Moukam MERLIN is based in Cotonou
(Benin) // Contact Pro : Pas de Management
Biography:
Afanou
Korblah Richard, born in Ivory Coast, is then returned to his home country,
Benin.
Since 1998 he
exhibited in Cotonou, but also travels in Europe, working in several artist
residencies, like that of La Ciotat, near Marseilles, in the festival Nuits
Métis.
Committed artist, he was also a time Okuta part of the
association whose aim was the promotion of art in Benin, and was involved in
Cotonou against pollution by participating in the demonstration Boulev'art.
This young artist
likes to work in Dassa, famous for its 41 hills with beautiful walks.
His work now is facing the Fulani people, marginalized in Benin as in other
countries of West Africa, and is particularly interested in one of their
custom: a ceremony of flogging (goja) rite of passage among adults for young
men. Flogging shows the transcendence of
physical pain for the quest of an ideal. Photographs, metals, soil, paint,
fabrics, born ... paintings and sculptures expressing the pain and joy,
strength and brutality of these ceremonies.
Through his work,
Richard A. Korblah seeks to promote and share tolerance and acceptance of others,
the dialogue of cultures and the culture of peace.
