Le marché du village (2012) Painting by Armand Pascal Aniambossou

ARMAND PASCAL ANIAMBOSSOU:
The painter Aniambossou was born on August 27th, 1936 from commercial parents residing at Ouidah, small town located at the south of Benin. Its childhood is marked by a strict education which he receives from his mother, empowered woman equipped with a religious direction and a steadfast faith animist. She will initiate him with the practices of animism and Christianism of which from wich he carry out later the synthesis well. The young Aniambossou grows consequently in a syncretic mystical environment which later will determine its personality, even his pictorial work. At the school, Aniambosou appears equipped with rare predispositions in the field of the drawing; encouraged by his teachers, He very early decides to be devoted to the object of its passion which is the drawing and later painting. His beginnings in Cotonou large metropolis Beninese, are difficult and disappointing, His first exhibition show a resounding failure. His father dies prematurely during the same time (at the end of 1956). These events deeply destabilize him without however breaking its ambition.

Deprived by the financial support and psychological whose his father constituted the essential base, Aniambossou then carries out well the painfulness of the way which he choosed. He leaves Benin for Ghana where he meets Koffi Antuban, painter with the established fame with who it binds friendship. Encouraged by his new friend, Aniambossou carries out a true handing-over in question of its talent and gives up consequently the simplistic vision which it hitherto had of his Article Through work and sacrifices in a quasi hostile environment, the work of Aniambossou carries out a remarkable qualitative transformation, on the double plan of the design and the result. Its first exposure organized to Accra in 1957 has extraordinary success in the public opinion and on the side of criticism. Consequently the painter Aniambossou acquires a new dimension. In 1960 it returns to Benin and organizes a series of exhibitions which get support of the Head of the State. In 1963 on official invitation of the German Democratic republic, it goes to Berlin to represent the painting of Dahomey (current Benin). Following a great exposure to the International Arts centre of Berlin, many Aniambossou tables are bought by various German institutions, among which the Museum of ethnology of. CREATOR of the “FACES STORMS” Aniambossou thus begins an international artistic life which will carry out it in turn, in many African and Western countries; inter alia: Nigeria, Cameroon, the Ivory Coast, Togo, Angola, Germany, France, England etc Animated by the major concern to carry out works whose artistic construction, set of themes and esthetics cause admiration and the respect, Aniambossou decides by 1979 to work more and primarily with pictorial research. These years there, will be years of great loneliness but especially of unforgettable moments of personal achievement and d...

• Nationality: BENIN
• Date of birth : 1936
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Beninese Artists