Vivien Tapsoba
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Biography
Born on February 21, 1984, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Vivien Tapsoba is a self-taught contemporary painter. He lives and works in Worcester, Massachusetts. He began his career at a very young age, starting to draw and color at the age of 6, thanks to his mother who worked in a preschool and brought him colored pencils and watercolors to paint with.
After completing primary school in 1995, he continued his studies in high school and decided to pursue both music and painting. However, he later dedicated most of his time to painting and decided to undergo formal training to achieve his goals. In 2000, he started taking drawing classes at the National Center of Handicrafts (CNAA) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
In 2001, he joined the OLORUN Foundation, an institution of contemporary art in Burkina Faso, where he began learning about painting, color mixing, and shapes.
After spending five years at the OLORUN Foundation, where he strengthened his research techniques as part of his artistic approach, he finally found his painting style and participated in one of his first group exhibitions, "The New Wave," in 2005.
That same year, several opportunities arose for him. In 2005, he was selected for the second edition of the project "50 LIONS 50 ARTISTS" by the city of Lyon (France), directed by the OLORUN Foundation.
In 2006, he participated in Dak'Art Off in Senegal at the Embassy of Burkina Faso in Senegal, and also exhibited in Ghana, Denmark, France, Italy, Côte d'Ivoire, Tucson, AZ, Virginia, Florida, and Washington State.
In painting, Vivien Tapsoba's influences include Joan Miró, Jean Dubuffet, Prince Richard, Cy Twombly, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Inspired by daily life and certain current events in his surroundings and the world, he manages to immortalize these events on his canvases through the process of erasing and reconstructing figures and forms, creating a living story in his paintings.
The artist's painting style lies between the figurative world and expressionism.
Sometimes, a painting is left untitled to give art enthusiasts a free field of interpretation.
The painting technique he uses is known as mixed media.
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Nationality:
BURKINA FASO
- Date of birth : 1984
- Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
- Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary Burkinabe Artists
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expo collective retour de dak'arts galerie nuance 2006
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expo collective fespaco off des arts plastiques espace gambidi 2007
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gar’arts. mobile showcase of African art
News paper interview
interview
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yachinte ouattara and vivien tapsoba exhibition at villa yirisuma
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project 50 artists 50 lions by the city of Lyon. France
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Collective Exhibitions new wave ( Nouvelle Vague) 2005
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Residence and Collective Exhibition Mur-Mur Napam Beogo 2011
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Exhibition Collection Torments at Villa Yirisuma 2010
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Exhibition Personnel Ambiance au karité bleu 2012
Philosophy
his philosophy of art resounds as an encounter with oneself, where the artist learns every day to control his emotions on the canvas from his world which is out of the ordinary and that we cannot express sometimes with the words often related to the world, the culture, or the society in which we are attached.
It is by the expression of the harmony of colors on his canvases that the schemas of the creation of Vivien TAPSOBA were born little by little. From the erasure to the reconstruction of figures that give shape to some elements that appear on his paintings that represent most characters, animals or signs related to the story told on the canvas.
The painting style of the artist is determined between figurativeand Expressionism and the themes often come from the nature of each painting; just a way to give a free field of vision to art lovers to find their own reading of things, the painting technique used on these paintings is called mixed technique.
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Exhibition ambiance ( atmosphere ) at karitè bleue
