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TCHIF, 1972, Cotonou, lives and works in Paris

 

 

 

 

 

About:

Tchif shares the idea of Kandinsky about abstract art: ”Shape is the outer expression of the inner content”.

Les larmes colorées, 2014.

A self taught artist, Tchif took part in many exhibitions and has been invited worldwide to present his work (Brazil, Holland, France, Germany, Belgium, Portugal…). The National Museum of Africa Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, selected him for one of its largest exhibitions organized around the ”Earth Matters” contemporary African art for a full year.
He is one of this generation’s artist who plays a great part in the world of contemporary art. Tchif has always been painting. He throws himself into creation in an instinctive, emotional, sensual way. His hand is his favorite tool. Although matter and color are at the heart of his paintings, he is not limited to this technic.

2015.

Tchif’s paintings, very colorful, make you feel like flying above some ancient landscapes, as a today’s archaeology where some traces are like memories of successive stays on earth. Tchif gives us his spiritual vision of man’s wandering on Earth, the existential search worn by initiatory steps along the course of his life. His paintings give us an universal vision of the world he lives in.
In his installations, Tchif surprises by hanging a car in a tree, as a self criticism concerning material possessions, he shows himself as a football player, he transformes and adds a personnal touch to the dictators of the world and modifies Obama’s image. He likes looking as society with criticism and irony. He says ”I’m a citizen artist of the world…” (text website artist)Chiel noir, 2014.