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Hervé Youmbi

Hervé Gabriel Ngamago Youmbi is a Cameroonian artist who lives and works in Douala. He is a founding member of the Cercle Kapsiki, a collective of five Cameroonian artists, founded in 1998.[1]

Hervé Youmbi
Hervé Youmbi
Hervé Youmbi
Born(1973-03-25)March 25, 1973 (49)
Bangui, Central African Republic
NationalityCameroonian
EducationInstitut de Formation Artistique (IFA), Mbalmayo (1993 – 1996)
Alma materEcole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ESAD) Strasbourg (2000 – 2001)
Known forSculpture, installation art, mixed media, screenprinting

Biography

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Portraits of five Cameroonian politicians who, in different historical periods, fought and died for independence

Hervé Youmbi was born in Bangui, Central African Republic on March 25, 1973.[2][3] He earned a diploma from the Institut de Formation Artistique (IFA) in Mbalmayo, Cameroon, and later studied at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg (France) from October 2000 to June 2001.[4] He teaches art in several towns in Cameroon, at the art institutes of Nkongsamba and Foumban, and in the art academies and universities of Douala and Dschang.[5]

Work

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Portraiture is the basis of Youmbi's work. Through a close study of the human body in an urban setting, he asks questions about his city, the towns where he has stayed, and places he has passed through and dreams about getting to know more intimately. These are his sources of inspiration and artistic expression. In 2010, he explores the impact of global capitalism on the contemporary arts in Africa with his multimedia installation Ces totems qui hantent la mémoire des fils de Mamadou (These totems who haunt the memory of the son of Mamadou). The photographic triptych Au nom du père, du fils et de la sainte monarchie constitutionnelle (In the name of the father, the son and the holy constitutional monarchy) from 2012 depicts the violence and uprising against of the dictatorial regimes in Africa.[3] His installation Visages de Masques presented at Bandjoun Station (Cameroon) looks at the impact of colonization on the making of ritual masks in Africa during the era of globalization. The treatment of historical subjects has occupied an important place in his work, through works like Cameroonian Heroes, presented during SUD 2007 in Douala, tribute to the first Cameroonian resistance against German colonization.

Listed Works

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  • Visages de Masques (2015-Present). [6][7]
  • Totems to Haunt our Dreams (2010). [6][8]

Awards and Recognitions

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Hervé Youmbi received the Culturesfrance scholarship awarding him an artist visa in 2009, and the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship 2012 from the Smithsonian in Washington DC, USA. His works are in some leading collections, such as the World Bank and the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington. In 2020, one of his pieces was acquired by the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada.[9]

 
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References

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  1. ^ "Hervé Youmbi – SPARCK". Space for Pan African Research Creation and Knowledge. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  2. ^ "Hervé Youmbi – SPARCK". Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Hervé Youmbi". Doual'art (in French). Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  4. ^ "HERVÉ YOUMBI | Bio & CV". Axis Gallery. August 30, 2018. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  5. ^ "Hervé Youmbi - African Artists for Development". aad-fund.org. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  6. ^ a b Forni, Silvia; Malaquais, Dominique (September 2, 2018). "Village Matters, City Works: Ideas, Technologies, and Dialogues in the Work of HervÉ Youmbi". Critical Interventions. 12 (3): 294–305. doi:10.1080/19301944.2018.1532380. ISSN 1930-1944.
  7. ^ "Hervé Youmbi | Visages de Masques". Axis Gallery. August 29, 2019. Retrieved March 8, 2024.
  8. ^ "Hervé Youmbi | Totems to Haunt Our Dreams". Axis Gallery. August 29, 2019. Retrieved March 8, 2024.
  9. ^ "Contemporary Art in Cameroon". Royal Ontario Museum. Retrieved January 25, 2023.

Bibliography

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  • Lumières d'Afriques. Hervé Youmbi. [1] Archived February 1, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
  • Africultures. [2]
  • Urbanscénos. Hervé Youmbi. [3]
  • " Masks on the move " article de Silvia Forni (p. 38-53) dans African Arts summer 2016, Vol 49, number 2, Californie/ USA, 2016
  • " Lumières d'Afriques " Catalogue d'exposition Fondation AAD, Paris/ France, 2015
  • " Stories tellers " Catalogue d'exposition Bandjoun station, Bandjoun/ Cameroun. 2015
  • Arts et cultures d'Afrique. Vers une anthropologie solidaire. Sous la direction de Myrian-Odile Blin. Édition Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre (PURH), Rouen/ France. 2014
  • " CAMEROUN Une vision contemporaine 4 " World bank ; Yaoundé/ Cameroun. 2014
  • " Hervé Youmbi " Première monographie Texte de Dominique Malaquais pour Les carnets de la création, éditions de l'œil, Paris France. 2011
  • " Public Culture " Institute for public knowledge Volume 23 By Duke university press, Durham, NC/USA 2011
  • " Africultures n° 83 " Indépendances africaines: chroniques d’une relation, une interview de Virginie andriamirado, éditions l’Harmattan Paris/ France. 2011
  • « Anthologie de L'Art african du XX siècle », édition Revue noire, Paris, France.
  • Pensa, Iolanda (Ed.) 2017. Public Art in Africa. Art et transformations urbaines à Douala /// Art and Urban Transformations in Douala. Genève: Metis Presses. ISBN 978-2-94-0563-16-6

See also

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