A great Congolese artist, Trigo Piula, who has known me since my childhood spoke of the artist as being the man of the times.
For him, painting does not work on its own, he thinks that a painter must paint every day, something must happen every day because nothing is ever acquired for him, talent does not exist, but it is work that exists, as my math teacher used to say, “Repetition is the mother of science”. We find beauty in work.
Unlike Mr. Trigo, who is a full-time artist, and who is from another generation, mine live in a world with a speed of 200 km per hour, we live in the time of information.
We live to the rhythm of notifications from our connected objects, laptops, cellphones, etc. It often seems to us that a 24-hour day is no longer enough. We live in a society where we want everything and now!
Fast food, fast delivery, fast everything…
#thedap with its “Art is life” theme is the expression of this “speed” society in which we live and our approach to time.
With my naive style, I try to speak in my own way and express my deepest self; the part that is in each of us that words cannot express. It is a form of language of the imagination in search not necessarily of a thematic reproduction, but rather to materialize the work of the mind in all casualness, to let oneself go without any reflection.
The joint activity of the hand and the spirit gives a certain cohesion to the artistic expression.
The movement in my works is a substantial and indescribable impetus of temporospatial without constancy, in order to create new possibilities for the expression of artistic thought.
For ages, all the societies of earth, through the culture of arts, have left historiated images, which have not concealed their life in ignorance; but have sought strongly to give it a meaning in marking landmarks with allegiance to the values that were their own in a sense.
Identifying themselves to be conceded by the semantics, to the spiritual relations of authentic parallelism.
The particularity of this identification is the quintessence of instrumentalization.
An animal, a given object joins an intellectual conception in its virtual form of qualification.
Symbols, in terms of spiritual values.
These objects, these animals in formal monkeys allowing us to detect in them what is noble, essential, best in their implacable life.
Yes, symbols with particularly specific features, by marrying them as characteristic as possible, they give meaning to the allegorical expression.
This hymn of the times on this land of Africa by the way of consequence, which accesses intelligence, our singular culture of this familiar Africa.
The lion by its strike force symbolizes invincibility.
Courage closes in a just and equitable war what the essential and purest of something is summed up in.
All the ambiguities of words are the complexity of reflection that symbols bring.
Each of the casual movements in my works are allegories of states that words cannot describe a kind of diary coded by symbols.
Finally, I will say that I understand my grandfather better when he says “the work of art is priceless”, this notion of considerable added value to any other investment usually considered is the inference of a consideration of philosophical thought which considers that human dignity opposes price.
I would never have started this project without this last piece of advice from my grandfather:
“You have to dream to become, not dreaming is dying…”
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