Highlights: An exhibition in tribute to Monné Bou, a leading visual artist in Ivory Coast. Aged 80, with more than 50 years of career under his belt, this painter is a reference in the country in terms of contemporary art. Each canvas is designed with the same technique: spray painting. Each projection forms dots, which sometimes constitute the shapes of children, sometimes a landscape, like The Rubber Forest. Report at the Museum of Civilizations of Côte d'Ivoire.

In Ivory Coast, an exhibition pays tribute to the visual artist Monné Bou. Aged 80, with more than 50 years of career under his belt, this painter is a reference in the country in terms of contemporary art.…

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An exhibition in tribute to Monné Bou, a leading visual artist in Ivory Coast

In Ivory Coast, an exhibition pays tribute to the visual artist Monné Bou.

Aged 80, with more than 50 years of career under his belt, this painter is a reference in the country in terms of contemporary art.

Report at the Museum of Civilizations of Côte d'Ivoire.

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The Ivorian visual artist, Monné Bou.

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Each canvas is designed with the same technique: spray painting.

Monné Bou does not sketch a drawing before painting: he stands at a distance and splashes the canvas.

Each projection forms dots, which sometimes constitute the shapes of children, sometimes a landscape, like

The Rubber Forest

The artist first experimented with this technique when he was studying at the Beaux-Arts in Marseille, France: “

I did that with Indian ink.
When the spirits are bad, we mix the kaolin and then sprinkle.
To chase away evil spirits.

This exhibition highlights Monné Bou’s academic career.

Added to this is a retrospective on his work.

Christelle Mangoua, the curator of this exhibition, shows two other techniques used by this artist: “

We realized that around 1993, 1994, 1995,

Monné Bou

changed a little bit.
He began to represent woven loincloths.
The more we evolved in the years 2010 to 2020, we went a bit on lines in fact, they are drawings, I think he called them direct writing and they are really drawings that he makes, but very fine.

His artistic approach has left its mark on many young visual artists

Monné Bou continues to paint in her studio in Adiaké.

His works also interact with the paintings of other artists, to whom he was able to pass on his knowledge.

The person concerned was also a university professor.

His artistic approach has left its mark on many young visual artists, like Isidore Koffi.

This artist has adopted the technique of Monné Bou, which he revisits in his own way.

He defines himself as a “tâchiste”, a reference to the throwing technique initiated by Monné Bou: “

The master Monné Bou, in the form of the work, at a certain distance, there is a reality that we can perceive.
The clusters of colors are points which, at a certain distance, will construct an image, like a movement.
It's the same in my creations, I always take distance into account.
When we are closer, we have the impression of being in chaos, but at a certain distance from the work, we see a scene of life.
So, it is through all these graphic elements, through the task, that I transmitted this life.

The exhibition “Monné Bou: the mystery of the jet, 50 years later” is on until March 21, at the Museum of Civilizations of Côte d'Ivoire.

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An exhibition in tribute to Monné Bou, a leading visual artist in Ivory Coast

An exhibition in tribute to Monné Bou, a leading visual artist in Ivory Coast

His artistic approach has left its mark on many young visual artists

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