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BABA DIEDHIOU ALICE BOURGEOIS SORAYA GHARBI ALIDA YMELE MANEL N'DOYE RAYMOND YVES KONO

ALIDA YMELE

plastic artist from Cameroon

Alida Ymélé (1994-) is a Cameroonian artist born in Dschang in the West of Cameroon. She started to create at a very young age against the advice of her family. Her first ambition was to go into fashion design to ensure a manual practice without knowing the existence of a school of Fine Arts. Determined, she entered the Institute of Fine Arts of Nkongsamba from which she graduated with a master's degree in 2019.

Alida Ymélé's universe questions the permanent injustices that housewives experience. For her, her invisibilized women are heroines that it is necessary to put forward, to rehumanize. Indeed, she cannot but notice the violence with which these people are treated. This fight comes to her from her early childhood when she can read her mother's profession of housewife on her birth certificate, while society teaches her that this work does not really exist, is worth nothing.

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ALIDA YMELE

plastic artist from Cameroon

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Série grey women, acrylique et pose

ALIDA YMELE

plastic artist from Cameroon

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La lessiveuse, acrylique et posca

ALIDA YMELE

plastic artist from Cameroon

DESCRIPTION

Serie grey women, acrylic and posca, 115cm x 130cm.

La lessiveuse, acrylic and posca, 115cm x 130cm.

MANEL NDOYE

plastic artist from Senegal

Manel Ndoye is a Senegalese Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1986. Manel Ndoye's work has been offered at auction multiple times.

He enrolled at the School of Fine Arts of Dakar as a drawing major, and discovered a “mystery to break through and dominate”. Through the process of testing media he discovered his life project: painting. He searches for his own style in the universe of abstract figures. He offers his own reality of the visible. After graduating in 2010, he has taken part in group exhibits won several awards (Winner in Iran at the 16th International Festival of Visual Arts for Young Artists in 2009, Winner of the Blachère Foundation at the Biennial of Dakar in 2012). His painting reflects the arduous quest for a new pictorial procedure through the synthesis of multiple techniques and artistic movements.

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MANEL NDOYE

plastic artist from Senegal

Queen, acrylique

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MANEL NDOYE

plastic artist from Senegal

Queen, acrylique

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MANEL NDOYE

plastic artist from Senegal

DESCRIPTION

Queen I, acrylic, 80cm x 120 cm

Interpellation, acrylic, 120cm X 180 cm

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RAYMOND YVES KONO

plastic artist from Camerron

Kono Raymond Yves is an artist based in Cameroon whose paintings have been exhibited nationally and on the Ivory Coast. He characterizes his works as being free, open, and linear, originating from feelings and emotions. Capturing scenes from life, Yves endeavors to represent "the sprit" through his distinctive characters. He primarily creates with acrylics on fabric or canvas.

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« Live and mark your time so that you will not be forgotten. »

RAYMOND YVES KONO

plastic artist from Camerron

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Tchapeur, acrylique

RAYMOND YVES KONO

plastic artist from Camerron

Need something, acrylique

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RAYMOND YVES KONO

plastic artist from Camerron

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RAYMOND YVES KONO

plastic artist from Camerron

DESCRIPTION

Tchapeur, acrylic, 115cm x 130cm

Need something, acrylic , 115cm x 130cm

Relation, acrylic, 70cm X 70 cm

Ntshi-Ntshim, acrylic, 70cm X 70 cm

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BABA DIEDHIOU

El hadji Samba Diedhiou, known as Baba Diedhiou, is a young Senegalese photographer-video artist born in 1991 in Silinkine, a village in Casamance, in the south of Senegal. Passionate about football and photography from an early age, Baba has become one of the safe bets in photography and video, in Senegal.

However, it was for a career as a professional footballer that he was destined, thanks to his innate talents as a footballer, which also earned him detection and an invitation to go and undergo a test in Italy. For a long time, this shattered football dream will haunt him, and it shows in his first shots. His goal was first oriented on the round ball, he photographed his friends, and other footballers, before varying his takes and his themes. The choice of his themes, for the photographer, stems from an obsession with group spirit, solidarity and performance, without forgetting beauty...

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Photographer from Senegal

BABA DIEDHIOU

Série Ndawrabine

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Photographer from Senegal

BABA DIEDHIOU

Série Ndawrabine

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Photographer from Senegal

BABA DIEDHIOU

Photographer from Senegal

DESCRIPTION

Serie Ndawrabine, 1,10 cm x 80 cm

Serie Ndawrabien, 80cm x 80 cm

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ALICE BOURGEOIS

Plastic Art from France

Alice Bourgeois shapes a new image of Africa, that of a continent full of color, movement and communication, the fantasy of a dream land. With each new line, the Artist gets a little closer to the Senegalese soul.

The work of Alice Bourgeois is very strongly marked by Senegal, the country where she grew up. Her father, a professor at the Beaux-Arts in Dakar, participated in her awareness of the creative world from childhood. Her inspiration is rooted in the work of artists or creators such as Oumou Sy, Ousman Sow, Sembene Ousman or Aissa Dione.

As for the subject, it is feminine. The delicate line of the face is temporarily filed, but never completely covered. The colors with pop accents, hairstyles, postures, ornaments, evolve over the works.

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ALICE BOURGEOIS

Plastic Art from France

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Femme fleur, posca acrylique sur papier canson

ALICE BOURGEOIS

Plastic Art from France

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ALICE BOURGEOIS

Plastic Art from France

DESCRIPTION

Femme fleur, posca acrylique sur papier canson, A3

Miriam Makeba Abla Pokou, format 70 cmx 1m15

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SORAYA GHARBI

plastic artist from Senegal

From a very young, Soraya Gharib loves drawing and colors, a talent noticed by her drawing teacher at Lycée Van Vollenhoven in Dakar where she was born. Of Lebanese origin, Soraya grew up in Senegal and currently lives in France.

An architectural drawing assistant was her job in Dakar until 2001, when she moved to Paris and became passionate about Arabic calligraphy, which she practices in the Beaux-Arts workshops of the city of Paris.

It was not until 2012 that she began to practice painting as a hobby, but very quickly her thirst for painting made her discover a great passion buried in her from an early age.

As an autodidact, she is not inspired by any painter and takes the freedom to “taste” a bit of everything and lets herself be carried away by what she feels when creating.

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