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List Of Cameroonian Artists
The following is a list of notable Cameroonian artists working in visual or plastic media (including 20th-century artists working in video art, performance art, or other types of new media). See other articles for information on Cameroonian Culture. The following is a brief list of some important Cameroonian artists and groups of artists: The generation of artists working between the Fifties and the Seventies is defined by Essombe MouangeEssombe Mouange, ''Les arts plastiques au Cameroun, pour un espace d'expression viable'' in ''Cameroun: la culture sacrifiée''. Dossier of the magazine "Africultures", n. 60, L'Harmattan, July–September 2004, p. 84. a generation focused on naïves painting with a figurative transcription of the environment; among this generation he mentions Rameaum Lobé Lobé, Martin Jombè I, Lazare Edimo, Jean Massoma, Jacques Seppou, Ngimè Eyidi, Paul Mbongolo, Joseph Ngimè and Bernard Berville. In the Seventies and Eighties starts a new tendency. K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video Art
Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting. Video art can take many forms: recordings that are broadcast; installations viewed in galleries or museums; works streamed online, distributed as video tapes, or DVDs; and performances which may incorporate one or more television sets, video monitors, and projections, displaying live or recorded images and sounds. Video art is named for the original analog video tape, which was the most commonly used recording technology in much of the form history into the 1990s. With the advent of digital recording equipment, many artists began to explore digital technology as a new way of expression. One of the key differences between video art and theatrical cinema is that video art does not necessarily rely on many of the conventions that define t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracey Rose
Tracey Rose is a South African artist who lives and works in Johannesburg. Rose is best known for her performances, video installations, and photographs. Biography Rose was born in 1974 in Durban, South Africa. She attended the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in Fine Arts where she obtained her B.A. in 1996. She taught at Vaal Triangle Technikon, Vanderbijl Park, South Africa and at the University of the Witwatersrand. In February and March 2001 she was artist-in-residence in Cape Town at the South African National Gallery where she developed her work for the Venice Biennale 2001 curated by Harald Szeemann. Tracey Rose is represented in the US by Christian Haye of The Project. Work Rose's work responds to the limitations of dogma and the flaws in institutionalized cultural discourse. Her practice, which is known for centering on performance, also includes photography, video, and installation. Always evident in her work is the artist's insistence in co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginette Daleu
Ginette Daleu (born 23 September 1977; died 9 November 2018) was an artist from Cameroon. Biography Ginette Flore Daleu was born in 1977 at Metet in Cameroon. She was a degree from the Institut de Formation Artistique in Mbalmayo and graduated in 2000. She also attended the Libera Accademia di Belle Arti in Brescia in Italy. Daleu had created art from a young age and knew she wanted to be an artist, against the wishes of her family. Daleu died at her home in Senegal on 9 November 2018, following an illness. Career In 2006 Daleu was part of a collective of artists who travelled from Douala to Dak'art, exploring how to revitalise art education in Cameroon along the way. This project was called ''Exit Tour'' and the group travelled overland, meeting people and working with artists and students along the way. This trip came out of work at ArtBakery, an organisation to encourage artists in Cameroon. Working with and within communities became an important part of Daleu's practi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exit Tour
Exit(s) may refer to: Architecture and engineering * Door * Portal (architecture), an opening in the walls of a structure * Emergency exit * Overwing exit, a type of emergency exit on an airplane * Exit ramp, a feature of a road interchange Art and entertainment Comics and magazines * ''Exit'' (comics), a French comic by Bernard Werber and Alain Mounier * ''Exit'' (magazine), a British photography magazine Film * ''Exit'' (1986 film), a Canadian film directed by Robert Ménard * ''Exit'' (1996 film), an American film with a screenplay by Joe Augustyn * ''Exit'' (''Nöd ut''), a 1996 Swedish short film starring Geir Hansteen Jörgensen * ''Exit'' (2000 film), a French film directed by Olivier Megaton * ''Exit'' (2006 film), a Swedish film starring Maria Langhammer * '' Exit: una storia personale'', a 2010 Italian film by Massimiliano Amato * ''Exit'' (2011 film), an Australian-Canadian film directed by Marek Polgar * ''Exit'' (2019 film), a South Korean action disa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SUD Salon Urbain De Douala
The SUD Salon Urbain de Douala (meaning South - Urban Festival of Douala) is a triennial festival of public art and contemporary art organised in Douala, Cameroon. The festival had its first edition in 2007 and it is promoted by the art centre and cultural organisation doual'art. History The SUD Salon Urbain de Douala was announced during the ''Ars&Urbis International Symposium'' organised in Douala in 2005 by doual'art; the Ars&Urbis focussed on the relationship between art and urban transformations and it was created as a preparatory research gathering for the SUD. At the end of 2005 is established in Rotterdam the iStrike Foundation (officially registered in 2006), which will contribute to the start-up of the SUD and its first edition as a European office of doual'art. doual'art and iStrike Foundation organize together in 2007 the ''Ars&Urbis International Workshop'', an event to produce and collect documentation about Douala and its cultural scene, which will be published i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ArtBakery
ArtBakery is an art centre based in the village of Bonendale a few kilometers from Douala and founded by Goddy Leye. The centre offers trainings for emerging artists (Master Class), journalists (Art Daily) and residency programs for young artists (Portfolio). ArtBakery is specifically designed to technically support the production of multimedia artworks, video and digital art. History ArtBakery is founded in 2002 after the artist Goddy Leye moves back to Cameroon from the Netherlands. The centre is part of the Rijksakademie International Network (RAIN), a network of artists who support contemporary cultural practices in their countries of origin. RAIN supports ArtBakery and its first project Bessengue City'. Activities Bessengue City ''Bessengue City'' is a project designed and coordinated by Goddy Leye and organised in Bessengue Douala in October 2002. The project involved the artists James Beckett, Goddy Leye, Hartanto, Jesus Palomino and the local community and it w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atelier Viking
{{Short description, Artist-run initiative in Douala, Cameroon Atelier Viking is a studio and an artist-run initiative based in Douala, Cameroon. Artist Viking Kanganyam André founded atelier Viking in March 1976 to promote contemporary art in Cameroon. The paucity of art galleries in Douala encouraged Kanganyam to create a space where artists could be trained and exhibited. Viking taught visual arts (painting, sculpture, graphic art, drawing and serygraphy) to small groups of students. Viking encouraged his students to explore the potentialities of all media and specifically the possibility of transforming and re-using materials found in loco. Concurrently to their activity of visual artists, they worked in advertising. Since 2001, Viking decided to devote his space mostly to exhibitions. Atelier Viking is located in the neighbourhood of Bessengue, Rue Jamot face Garage Technique Auto, 100mt from Mobil Bonakouamuang. It collaborates with Art Wash. Exhibitions and Events Organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doual'art
doual'art is a non profit cultural organisation and art centre founded in 1991 in Douala, Cameroon and focussed on new urban practices of African cities. History doual'art was registered as a non profit organization in 1992 and it was established by Marilyn Douala Bell and Didier Schaub. In 1995 they created ''Espace doual'art'', an exhibition space and gallery in the neighbourhood of Bonanjo in Douala. In 1996 they produced La Nouvelle Liberté by Joseph-Francis Sumégné, considered a landmark in Douala. In 2005 they organized the first Ars&Urbis event, an international symposium to foster discussion and theory about the contribution of art to urban transformation. The event led to the establishment of the SUD Salon Urbain de Douala, a triennial exhibition focused on public art. In December 2007 it launched the first edition of the SUD Salon Urbain de Douala. In December 2010 the second edition of SUD Salon Urbain de Douala took place. The salon produces the itinerant exhibi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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