Grand masque facial Côte d'Ivoire (2019) Sculpture by Alain Cousin

Born in Africa where I lived my early childhood there, I grew up in the tangle of lianas, plants, vegetation that nothing can stop. After returning to France where I buried this past, I obtained a plastic arts baccalaureate then studied law and then entered working life as a senior civil servant in the service of the State.

Although having always painted throughout my life, the chance of a meeting with Mr Bernard Magrez in Bordeaux woke up in me a debt of life. I immediately left everything to settle this personal score by devoting myself fully to my first passion, art.

This search for identity, for my roots that raise questions for me, allows me to create works that are part of the experimentation of an Africa / West dialogue, of a crossing of language that makes visible what has been buried for many years.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1958
• Artistic domains: Represented by a Gallery,
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists Artists presented by a gallery