Vivien Tapsoba

Born on February 21, 1984 in one of the popular neighborhoods of the city of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso).

Vivien TAPSOBA is a self-taught painter. He lives and works in the United States of America,  and has already produced several exhibitions in Africa and Europe.

Vivien TAPSOBA's career began very young when he began drawing and coloring at the age of 6. Thank to his mother who worked at a kindergarten and who brought him colored pencils and watercolors to paint.

After his primary school in 1995 he continued his studies at the Lycée (Philippe Zinda KABORE) in Burkina Faso , after  high school he decided to launch into music and painting, but devotes most of his time to painting And therefore decide to follow painting training in the contemporary arts , to achieve his  goals .  He then began taking drawing lessons in 2000 at the National Art Craft Center of Ouagadougou (CNAA) . 

In 2001, he joined the OLORUN foundation where he began to paint and develop shapes , and mixtures of colors , alongside the painter (Boubakary Konsiembo) from Burkina.

After five years spent at the OLORUN Foundation where he strengthened his research technique as part of his artistic approach. He finally found his style of painting and finally produced one of his first group exhibitions , the new wave in 2005.

During the same year, several opportunities presented themselves to him, 

He leads the workshop for residents of the Laïye juvenile detention center, (Burkina Faso).

In 2004 he was selected for the second edition of the “50 LIONS 50 ARTISTS ” project by the city of Lyon (France).

Apart from the OLORUN Foundation  where everything started well for him, he has other encounters , he participates in the Dak'Art off at the Burkina Faso embassy in Senegal, a competition organized by the Ministry of Culture of Burkina Faso in 2006.  

The years that followed were for him a perfect success in his career as an artist , illustrated by the following group exhibitions:

He exhibits in Ghana, Denmark, Burkina Faso, France, Italy, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Tucson Az, San Juan Island Wa, Virginia.

Vivien Tapsoba has as reference the painters: Joan Miro, Jean Dubuffet, Prince Richard, Cy twom bly, Jean Michel Basquiat. 

 His  philosophy of art can be summed up as an encounter with oneself, where the artist is the witness of his time, which is sometimes marked by certain daily events or current events in which he is confronted, It is through the erasure and reconstruction of figures and forms that Vivien's story is born on the canvas which represents most of the characters, animals or living signs.

The artist's painting style is determined between the figurative world and Expressionism. 

Or sometimes untitled painting just a way to give a free field of vision to art lovers to have their own reading. The  painting technique used is called mixed technique.

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