Baraka #1

Armand Boua

Baraka #1, 2019171 x 187cmSign in to view price
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mixed media on cardboardGalerie Cécile Fakhoury
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Visual Elements: The artwork features a bold, abstract composition with a mix of earthy tones, including brown, beige, and hints of yellow and purple. The overall style is characterized by a rough, textural quality, with visible brushstrokes and splatters of paint. Subject Matter: The piece depicts two stylized human figures, their forms loosely defined against the heavily textured background, creating a sense of ambiguity and fragmentation. Artistic Style and Technique: The artist employs a distinctive expressionistic style, with a focus on capturing the essence of the figures rather than rendering them realistically. The technique showcases a spontaneous, gestural approach to painting, allowing for a dynamic and emotive representation. Context: This work likely reflects the artist's exploration of the human experience and the complexities of the human condition, capturing a sense of movement, emotion, and a fragmented, introspective perspective. ...

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Armand Boua
Artist
Armand Boua
B.1978, Ivorian

To explore an exhibition by Armand Boua is to dive into the vibrant and at times violent contemporary street life of Abidjan. Abstract silhouettes are welcoming us. They will accompany us from one everyday life scene to another. Their faces lack details, nevertheless they stare at us intensely and stand before us with the placidity of those who have seen and lived everything. Yet, some of them are youngster, just out of their childhood spent in the streets where Armand Boua met them and where they are used to spend time together. The dazzling quality of Armand Boua's paintings conceals the long creative work at stake. Each of the painting is made of several layers of material - newspapers, cardboard, papers - which are gathered by the artist, glued together and painted before being washed and brushed in a cathartic gesture. Armand Boua is taking inspiration from his daily life, nurturing his practice with the human encounters he experiences. His choice of a rather abstract representation of characters, ethereal shapes of silhouettes, enables him to take distance with the immediacy of denunciation process to inscribe his practice in a universal geography and temporality open to multiple readings. Under the artist's hand, street becomes an epic field of representation. Composition and close framing give Armand Boua's paintings a photographic dimension. Caught in action, those silhouettes painted in black are surrounded by colorful halos resembling powerful auras as if revealed in negative thus creating a vibrant and blurred atmosphere hallucinatory visions can emerge from. ...

Armand Boua: Artworks
Foule Dja
Armand Boua
Foule Dja, 2018
374 x 200cm
Wotro I
Armand Boua
Wotro I, 2018
175 x 116cm
Brobrosseur #7
Armand Boua
Brobrosseur #7, 2018
101 x 94cm
Brobrosseurs#3
Armand Boua
Brobrosseurs#3, 2018
91 x 91cm
Milou #2
Armand Boua
Milou #2, 2019
118 x 115cm
La go Antou dans le gbonhi
Armand Boua
La go Antou dans le gbonhi, 2019
187 x 172cm
Le Viep
Armand Boua
Le Viep, 2019
179 x 116cm
Brobrosseurs #2
Armand Boua
Brobrosseurs #2, 2018
91 x 91cm
Djossi
Armand Boua
Djossi, 2018
187 x 170cm
Les môgôs de Poy #3
Armand Boua
Les môgôs de Poy #3, 2019
100 x 100cm
Baraka #2
Armand Boua
Baraka #2, 2019
182 x 198cm
La go de Treichville #2
Armand Boua
La go de Treichville #2, 2019
102 x 102cm
Le ballon fétché
Armand Boua
Le ballon fétché, 2019
245 x 345cm
Le gbaffou
Armand Boua
Le gbaffou, 2019
244 x 244cm
Les abobolais #1
Armand Boua
Les abobolais #1, 2019
187 x 172cm
Les môgôs de Djamtala #4
Armand Boua
Les môgôs de Djamtala #4, 2019
100 x 100cm
Les môgôs de Poy #2
Armand Boua
Les môgôs de Poy #2, 2019
102 x 102cm
Les môgôs de Poy #4
Armand Boua
Les môgôs de Poy #4, 2019
102 x 102cm
Les roukaskas
Armand Boua
Les roukaskas, 2019
182 x 198cm
Milou #1
Armand Boua
Milou #1, 2019
108 x 115cm
Bacromen de Babi #1
Armand Boua
Bacromen de Babi #1, 2019
Bacromen de Babi #2
Armand Boua
Bacromen de Babi #2, 2019
125 x 119cm
Baraka #1
Armand Boua
Baraka #1, 2019
171 x 187cm
Brobrosseur #7
Brobrosseurs
Armand Boua
Brobrosseurs, 2018
195 x 191cm
Brobrosseurs #1
Armand Boua
Brobrosseurs #1, 2018
93 x 90cm
Brobrosseurs #10
Armand Boua
Brobrosseurs #10, 2018
188 x 170cm
Brobrosseurs #2
Armand Boua
Brobrosseurs #2, 2018
91 x 91cm
Brobrosseurs #4
Armand Boua
Brobrosseurs #4, 2018
94 x 91cm
Brobrosseurs #5
Armand Boua
Brobrosseurs #5, 2018
101 x 96cm
Brobrosseurs #6
Armand Boua
Brobrosseurs #6, 2018
101 x 94cm
Brobrosseurs #8
Armand Boua
Brobrosseurs #8, 2018
100 x 96cm
Brobrosseurs #9
Armand Boua
Brobrosseurs #9, 2018
224 x 200cm
Brobrosseurs#3
Armand Boua
Brobrosseurs#3, 2018
91 x 91cm
Djossi
Armand Boua
Djossi, 2018
187 x 170cm
Foule Dja
Armand Boua
Foule Dja, 2018
374 x 200cm
Gbaka Yas (Adjamé-Gesco),
Armand Boua
Gbaka Yas (Adjamé-Gesco),
171 x 187cm
La go Antou dans le gbonhi
Armand Boua
La go Antou dans le gbonhi, 2019
187 x 172cm
La go de Djamtala
Armand Boua
La go de Djamtala, 2019
100 x 100cm
La go de Treichville #1
Armand Boua
La go de Treichville #1, 2019
102 x 102cm
Le fiston solo
Armand Boua
Le fiston solo, 2019
198 x 183cm
Le gbonhi de Djamtala
Armand Boua
Le gbonhi de Djamtala, 2019
245 x 246cm
Le gnabro
Armand Boua
Le gnabro, 2019
171 x 187cm
Le Viep
Armand Boua
Le Viep, 2019
179 x 116cm
Les abobolais #2
Armand Boua
Les abobolais #2, 2019
182 x 195cm
Les môgôs de Djamtala #1,
Armand Boua
Les môgôs de Djamtala #1,, 2019
102 x 102cm
Les môgôs de Djamtala #2,
Armand Boua
Les môgôs de Djamtala #2,, 2019
102 x 102cm
Les môgôs de Djamtala #3
Armand Boua
Les môgôs de Djamtala #3, 2019
102 x 102cm
Les môgôs de Poy #1
Armand Boua
Les môgôs de Poy #1, 2019
102 x 102cm
Les môgôs de Poy #3
Armand Boua
Les môgôs de Poy #3, 2019
100 x 100cm
Les môgôs de Poy #5
Armand Boua
Les môgôs de Poy #5, 2019
102 x 102cm
Les môgôs de Treichville #1
Armand Boua
Les môgôs de Treichville #1, 2019
102 x 102cm
Les môgôs de Treichville #2
Armand Boua
Les môgôs de Treichville #2, 2019
102 x 102cm
Les môgôs de Treichville #3
Armand Boua
Les môgôs de Treichville #3, 2019
102 x 102cm
Les sangbréli
Armand Boua
Les sangbréli, 2019
243 x 345cm
Milou #2
Armand Boua
Milou #2, 2019
121 x 119cm
Pro-pro le Kpangor
Armand Boua
Pro-pro le Kpangor, 2019
187 x 172cm
Sans Titre #2
Armand Boua
Sans Titre #2, 2018
187 x 171cm
Singuina Popo
Armand Boua
Singuina Popo, 2018
377 x 197cm
Thérèse
Armand Boua
Thérèse, 2019
119 x 118cm
Untitled #1
Armand Boua
Untitled #1, 2019
112 x 77cm
Untitled #1
Armand Boua
Untitled #1, 2018
202 x 109cm
Untitled #10
Armand Boua
Untitled #10, 2018
210 x 206cm
Untitled #2
Untitled #2
Armand Boua
Untitled #2, 2018
170 x 109cm
Untitled #3
Armand Boua
Untitled #3, 2019
111 x 76cm
Untitled #3
Armand Boua
Untitled #3, 2018
106 x 103cm
Untitled #4
Armand Boua
Untitled #4, 2019
118 x 142cm
Untitled #4
Armand Boua
Untitled #4, 2018
96 x 84cm
Untitled #5
Armand Boua
Untitled #5, 2019
118 x 142cm
Untitled #5
Armand Boua
Untitled #5, 2018
109 x 103cm
Untitled #6
Armand Boua
Untitled #6, 2018
200 x 200cm
Untitled #7
Armand Boua
Untitled #7, 2018
203 x 112cm
Untitled #8
Armand Boua
Untitled #8, 2018
103 x 90cm
Untitled #9
Armand Boua
Untitled #9, 2018
163 x 94cm
Wotro I
Armand Boua
Wotro I, 2018
175 x 116cm
Wotro II
Armand Boua
Wotro II, 2018
177 x 116cm
Gbaka Yas (Adjamé-Gesco)
Armand Boua
Gbaka Yas (Adjamé-Gesco), 2019
172 x 187cm
Les abobolais #1
Armand Boua
Les abobolais #1, 2019
187 x 172cm
Brobrosseurs #10
Armand Boua
Brobrosseurs #10, 2018
188 x 170cm
Sans Titre #2
Armand Boua
Sans Titre #2, 2018
187 x 171cm
Thérèse
Armand Boua
Thérèse, 2019
118 x 115cm
Les môgôs de Poy #2
Armand Boua
Les môgôs de Poy #2, 2019
100 x 100cm
Pro-pro le Kpangor
Armand Boua
Pro-pro le Kpangor, 2019
187 x 172cm
Les môgôs de Poy #1
Armand Boua
Les môgôs de Poy #1, 2019
102 x 102cm
Les môgôs de Djamtala #3
Armand Boua
Les môgôs de Djamtala #3, 2019
100 x 100cm
Le gbaffou
Armand Boua
Le gbaffou, 2019
245 x 245cm
La go de Treichville #2
Armand Boua
La go de Treichville #2, 2019
100 x 100cm
Baraka #1
Armand Boua
Baraka #1, 2019
171 x 187cm
Bacromen de Babi #1
Armand Boua
Bacromen de Babi #1, 2019
114 x 110cm
Untitled #5
Armand Boua
Untitled #5, 2019
118 x 142cm
Galerie Cécile Fakhoury
Gallery
Galerie Cécile Fakhoury
Abidjan, Paris, Dakar

Galerie Cecile Fakhoury opened its doors in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in September 2012. In May 2018, the gallery inaugurated its second space in Dakar, Senegal and a showroom in Paris, France. Shortly after, in March 2020, a new project space dedicated to emerging artists from Africa opened in Abidjan. In October 2021, Galerie Cecile Fakhoury inaugurated another gallery, opening in the 8th arrondissement of Paris on Avenue Matignon. The gallery promotes contemporary art from Africa and the Diaspora by providing visibility to the artistic diversity and creative spirit from the continent. Through its programming of solo and group exhibitions, participation in international art fairs, biennales, and collaboration with international galleries, Cecile Fakhoury is a leading force putting contemporary African art on the global map. The artists represented by the gallery are distinguished by their cultural identities and stories, they create a new language that crosses geographical boundaries and familiarities. They are observers of the world they live in, critics of society, and committed to their positions living within complex histories. In turn, they ask us to reconsider our own relation to the world. ...

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