MEDI1TV Afrique : #Chronique_culture du 17/03/2025 - 17/03/2025
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00:00Welcome to Mediane TV and art in this chronicle and direction the Ivory Coast to the discovery of the artist painter Abdoulaye Diarasouba, better known as Daboudia.
00:21Before becoming a reference, the Ivorian first walked alone, determined to become a painter in a society that gave little consideration to artists. At the time, it was synonymous with being a failure.
00:35The artist was born in 1983, a student at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers d'Abingourou in eastern Ivory Coast and at the Centre Technique des Arts de Bain-Guerville in the suburbs of Abidjan.
00:48Daboudia was already very attached to the children's world. He remembers his former teacher, Jacob Leu, another renowned painter.
00:56In the 2000s, he brought his first works to the Abidjanez-Oukami Gallery. I don't know how many times he came with works that were considered immature, that were not successful.
01:08Daboudia recalls the critic Mimi Herolle, who worked there. He spoke without saying a word and returned the next day until he found his identity and refined his convictions from painting to painting.
01:21A way of painting characters is confirmed. Good men draw very dark or very colourful lines, always seeming to exceed, neglect, disconcert and challenge.
01:31I invite you to listen to the artist painter Daboudia.
01:36When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a painter. My father didn't want me to, but then there were wars.
01:41All fathers want their children to be successful, but in Africa, you know, painting is not in our culture.
01:49Even if the art is there, African art is strong, through sculptures, paintings, many other things.
01:56But the father who is a teacher wants his child to be a teacher like him.
02:01Because in Africa, at the time, we said that if you do it wrong, you are a failure.
02:05It's not in the wrong way. Everyone wants their child to be a doctor, a doctor, and so on.
02:12What makes me recognize my style, I can say that it is this naive side, being old and working like a child.
02:21I think that's it. It brings a little peculiarity.
02:25And also working with children from the United States, children from the street, Nushi, Ken, Nago, Ivorians, who are practiced by children on the street.
02:36The 2010-2011 post-electoral crisis in Ivory Coast and its 3,000 deaths will reveal it to the world with paintings depicting the chaos of the Battle of Abidjan.
02:47He paints young people delivered to war, to themselves, in connection with his story, the children on the street.
02:53It's not their place, he says, you have to call the parents, the authorities, anyone aware of the cause of childhood to get them out of there.
03:02The artist depicts the world of what we cannot see, a life of young people who have trouble integrating into society and who must fight.
03:10We think it's something very basic, simple, but Abidjan depicts man to show it in his simplest expression.
03:17Abidjan is today the painter of children on the street, a worldwide success. I suggest you listen to him again.
03:25I tell a lot of things about children who are on the street.
03:31It's not their place, you have to call the parents, the authorities, anyone aware of the cause of childhood to get them out of there.
03:43I never wanted to paint for someone, to work for someone. I do what I want to do.
03:57If you like it, you like it. If you don't like it, too bad.
04:01The style of Abou Diya's paintings, which the artist himself calls naive, which include works inspired by street children,
04:08made him one of the best-selling artists in the world, despite the resistance and difficulties he encountered along the way.
04:16Today, painter Abdoulaye Diara Souba inspires a whole new generation of Ivorian painters to follow their own creative path.
04:24Abou Diya, who lives in Abidjan, is currently ranked 1,311th in the top 5,000 artists in the world.
04:32He is one of the best-selling artists at auction, according to the ArtPrice market analysis company.
04:37In 2022, he was even the most-sold contemporary artist, with 75 paintings sold in total.
04:44Today, Paris, London, New York or Lagos are selling his works.
04:50I invite you to listen to painter Jacob Leu. He was Abou Diya's former teacher.
04:58The level he reached is sometimes quite surprising.
05:02At the time, apart from Jean-Michel Basquiat, who was the most recognized African-American artist in the world,
05:15he was also a good opening door for African artists.
05:20In Africa, it was difficult to find black artists in contemporary art.
05:28Most of the exhibitions were quite ghettoized.
05:32When you go to African exhibitions like Magiciens de la Terre or Remix Africa,
05:38you find yourself in a context of international contemporary art in large galleries.
05:52It was a surprise, but also a source of pride for us, who were at the heart of the formation.
06:00Thank you, dear viewers, for your loyalty.
06:03We continue our conversation on our channels, Média TV Arabique, Média TV Afrique, Média TV Maghreb,
06:09and of course on our digital media, medianews.com.
06:14We leave you with these images of the Autumn-Winter 2025-2026 collection of some French firms.
06:21Saint-Laurent presented a very minimalist collection, with a big play on volumes,
06:26inspired by the 1980s, whether on coats, blouses or short dresses.
06:31Pierre Cardin, on the other hand, presented a collection inspired by the moon,
06:35with sculptural, geometric and pure silhouettes, always avant-garde.
07:3110, 9, 8, 7…