#Ivorian artist

[theaskew]

Aboudia (Abdoulaye Diarrassouba) (American-Ivorian, b. 1983, lives in Brooklyn and works in Abidjan and New York), Untitled, 2024. Mixed media on canvas, 59 × 48 in. | 149.9 × 121.9 cm. (Source: Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, Beacon and Brooklyn)

[agelessphotography]

Abissa 2 from The Power of Alliances series, Nuits Balnéaires, 2021

[onenakedfarmer]

Daily Painting

Aboudia MASQUERADE I (2019)

[newleasemusic]

Song of the Day: Gucci - Sneakbo (ft. Lyco, Ivorian Doll & 2Face)

Song of the Day: Gucci - Sneakbo (ft. Lyco, Ivorian Doll & 2Face)

South London’s SNEAKBO teams up with Lyco, Ivorian Doll and Two Face for their latest collaborative single ‘Gucci’. A completely organic track that happened naturally when the artists were together in Birmingham where Sneakbo linked up with Lyco and Ivorian Doll for the first time. The chemistry was so special, they decided to lay down a demo and this was the end result recorded on the first go.…

[lamaery]

100 Portraits Challenges - Part 8 and 9

Not real ambitions for character associations here. Just looking for interesting faces and a broader diversity of skin tones.

Part eight

49-50) American actress Julia Jones

51) American actor Ritesh Rajan

52 - 53) Sikh American designer and actor Waris Ahluwalia

54 - 55) Indian actor, martial artist and stuntman Vidyut Jammwal

Part nine

56) Harvey Guillén as Guillermo De la Cruz

57-58) Canadian/American/Gambian YouTuber Khadijah Mbowe

59) One of the portraits of the Humanae Series by photographer Angélica Dass

60) German rock musician Gil Ofarim

61) Ivorian model Aminata Sanogo

The Humane series by Angelica Dass is pretty neat. It shows both the broad variety and similarities across humans from all kinds of ethnicities.

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[vhstown]

my fav songs by uk artists rn 😘 (nobody asked)

i spy - skepta

i luv u - dizzee rascal

dance wiv me - dizzee rascal (😍😍😍😍)

wot do u call it? - wiley

bad em up - wiley

pow 2011 - lethal bizzle

shade - iamddb (unironically)

rumours - ivorian doll

who told you - j hus (but the version someone made without drake)

flowers - ardee (😍😍😍😍😍)

[douneyhey]

Hi there, lovely folks of the internet! 🎵 Hope you're all doing fantastic because I've got some musical gems to brighten your day and the end of october. 🌟

Reaaadyy~~~~

First and foremost, GUYS!! Don't miss out on "Good Enough," which was just released today, and let me tell you, that's totally my vibe right now! 🚀 The music video is ridiculously cute, and the lyrics? OMO, they hit home.

Essentially, the song revolves around a protagonist who, much like many of us, often feels lost and hopeless. But the lyrics bring a comforting message, saying,

"It's okay, you're good enough. You don't have to be perfect"

It's a reassuring anthem for those chasing their dreams, battling anxiety and uncertainty along the way. 🌠

And for those of you who enjoyed my previous post about "Expectation" by D.O you'll be delighted to know that "The View" is one of the gems from his second mini-album. 🌟

The lyrics of this track beautifully capture the emotions of longing for someone who has left and the heartache of not being able to see them again. 🥺 With D.O.'s soulful vocals and the minimalistic arrangements featuring delicate guitar chords, the song exudes a nostalgic and melancholic feel that's simply enchanting. 🎸✨

I stumbled upon "Sunset Boulevard," and I'm so glad I did. I first came across the artist's work on Instagram, and following my musical instincts was a brilliant decision. 🌅🎶

Trust me, this one's a must-listen. It's a gem that's been brightening my days, and I'm sure it'll do the same for you. 🌟

I have to admit this one's a little biased, considering it's from an Ivorian Singer/Rapper, but let me tell you, it's an absolute banger! 💃

This song carries a powerful message of courage and resilience in the face of adversity, encouraging us to embrace new beginnings on our journey toward a brighter future. 🌈 Its lyrics remind us that, even when hope seems distant, we must keep moving forward, hoisting our sails high and embarking on new adventures.

"How long have I waited for the day to leave behind the past, to say goodbye, and emerge from the lonely season to meet you? How long have I waited for the day to start anew, leaving behind memories that have faded into the past, and to be reborn?"

In essence, the song is a beacon of hope, resilience, and the significance of seeking fresh starts in our lives. To complement this song recommendation, I've got a movie suggestion for you - "The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure." It's a Korean movie, and although it may not entirely align with the song's theme, it reminded me of this film because it's all about pirates and sailing. Plus, it's incredibly fun and worth a watch! 🏴‍☠️

Actually, "Garis Terdepan" is a title released back in 2015. Its calming vibes truly struck a chord with me, so I couldn't resist sharing it with all of you.

From what I understand, the song is a lyrical journey with a protagonist who feels lost and hopeless, yet his partner is always there as a rock to lean on. 🌟 "Garis Terdepan" beautifully delves into the theme of unrequited love, highlighting the significance of having that one constant pillar of support in our lives. 💕

And on this note, I'll leave it to you to decide if these songs are worthy additions to your playlists. 🎧 May your weekend be filled with warmth, joy, and, of course, some fantastic tunes! 🌞🎶

[mywifeleftme]

340: Various Artists // Two Tribes

Two Tribes Various Artists 2019, Agogo (Bandcamp)

A double-LP mixtape/compilation from Hannover electronic label Agogo Records, Two Tribes “makes an effort to give insight in how [sic] musicians living in Europe today incorporate and transfer musical traditions particularly from the African continent into their oeuvre” (per the liner notes). Ostensibly, everyone here is either a musician living in Europe with African roots of some kind, or is a European musician collaborating with Africans, though in some cases what you get is just a Euro DJ using a few “tribal” sounding drum stems.

I had a lot of fun listening to the most ‘70s sounding funk stuff here and trying to guess how white the musicians were, but I was underprepared for the intensity of unpasteurized Funky Continental Guyness I was exposed to. Winners included guitarist Petri Kautto of Finnish-Beninese Afro-jazz combo Trio Toffa (pretty good), who strongly resembles Bill Nighy wearing a bucket hat with fake dreads attached to it, and Berlin’s slavishly authentic Afro-funk group Onom Agemo and the Disco Jumpers, who look like the S-Bahn Bloodhound Gang.

Petri Kauto of Trio Toffa

Onom Agemo and the Disco Jumpers

The compilation has what strikes me as a downright quaint (and very German) attitude towards the notion of cultural exchange that runs the risk of being pilloried for appropriation, but I’m sympathetic to it. Certainly, a collaboration like that between Zimbabwean mbira player Jacob Mafuleni and French DJ Gary Gritness that is neither explicitly “African” or “European” is by nature a more truly cross-cultural enterprise than Onom Agemo’s reverent homage or German DJ Elias “Agogo” Foerster’s vaguely Books-ish chops of African beat and vocal samples, but whatever. Influence is impossible to strictly regulate, and I don’t know that it’s even desirable to. White guys nerding out and riffing on the music of the cultures their governments currently oppress isn’t a problem—that their governments are oppressing those cultures, and that the scenes they operate within often have the taint of trickled down racism despite their utopian values, is. One hopes that Agogo and these musicians are cognizant of these challenges, even as they radiate a genuine and laudable affection for African music.

It’s worth noting that, while the European club sounds represented range from ‘90s style techno and 2-step to more modern forms of minimal house and bass music, the African face of the coin is almost exclusively defined by the funky ‘70s and ‘80s sounds that drive record collectors into quasi-sexual spasms. Being one of those guys, I don’t mind it aesthetically, but it’s interesting that the most contemporary-sounding piece is the 15-minute minimal house track “Just in a Moment to Find a Way to Sun Day” by Ivorian-born Hamburg DJ Raoul K. The centrepiece of K’s track sounds to me like a synthesized mbira, but he doesn’t feel the need to flag his music as African—perhaps because he actually is a young guy of African descent. Instead, he puts on a master class in using simple shifts in rhythm and dynamics to keep a room vibing in near perpetuity.

Anyway, as a mix, Two Tribes contains a lot of fine music and flows nicely. I dig Andrea Benini’s Francis Bebey-esque “Jawa” and the K track in particular, but nothing aside from Selma Uamusse’s anime-sounding “Mozambique (Ao Sul Do Mundo)” actively irks me. I’ve listened to Two Tribes a lot more than many other records in my collection that dig deeper, or make more powerful statements, because in the end, I just like the way it sounds.

340/365

[diogeneswannabe]

INTRO POST

Welcome to whatever this is.

I guess I would consider myself an artistic person ??

☭ Name : Chris

☭ Age : 19 and regretting every life decision that led me here

☭ Gender : idk i gave up (afab, he/they)

☭ Nationality : French, Ivorian, "the whitest black kid" as my aunts call me 🤡

☭ Current profession : biology-chemistry student (help ;-;)

☭ Desired profession : ideally I'd like to be an independent researcher but I'll probaby become a monk or something if I fail my studies 💀

Actually I might become a monk even if I don't fail, idk yet

I really don't want a job :')

☭ Current objectives :

- become a writer ??

- find like-minded people to spread chaos over the world >:)

- reach enlightenment just to prove that I'm better than you

- Buy a flat in my favorite area of my hometown (i don't live there atm)

- open a coffee shop/library that's only open at night 🤩

- run an independant (and probably financially unstable) research lab

☭ Things I like : flowers, music, programming, philosophy, science, indie games, art and litterature...

☭ Current (wierd) obsessions : Spirituality/religion and self-exploration, finding my Dharma wtv it may be, fantasizing about the potential collapse of modern society and anything considered as controversial or rejected by society

I wonder what made my parents think I'd turn out normal...

PLAY ALTER EGO AND WATCH EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (i genuinely won't trust you if you don't appreciate these masterpieces >:( )

[phillymagicgardens]

In “Wildest Dreams” Zeinab Diomande explores Black womanhood through vulnerable self-portraits in her inventive multimedia works. Diomande challenges monolithic stereotypes placed on the Black community by creating limitless figures in her dream-like artworks. Through high-contrasting colors and vibrating patterns, these celebratory and electric works create a childlike universe for her characters to interact within and shape their reality.

Diomande is an Ivorian-American multimedia artist based in Philadelphia. She recently earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fine Arts Painting and Drawing from the University of the Arts. Diomande has exhibited in various cities around the world including New York City, Philadelphia, London, Chicago, West Hollywood, and more. She was awarded the Mural Arts Fellowship for Black Artists and was a finalist for the 2021 AXA Art Prize.

[lvdbbooks]

2023年2月24日

【新入荷・新本】

François-Xavier Gbré & Baptiste Manet & Martial Manet Album Architectures, Abidjan, Caryatide, 2022

English / French. 24 x 32 cm. Softcover. 128 pages.

価格：5,500円（税込）

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コートジボワールの旧首都アビジャン（Abidjan）に残る、「トロピカル・モダニズム」とも形容される主に1950〜70年代に建てられた近代建築にフォーカスした写真集。常に変化し続ける都市において、必ずしも特定されず、しばしば不可視化される、豊かで特異な建築的景観の価値化を通して、現代遺産の概念を考察します。

An iconographic work on the modern architecture of Abidjan which aims to offer a photographic survey of thirty buildings representative of the chosen moment of architecture that followed independence.

This is not an architecture book but a photography book on an architecture that expresses itself through diversity. It is a book that intends to offer a photographic view of buildings in Abidjan that bear the imprint of a certain «tropical modernism».

More precisely, Album Architectures, Abidjan is the testimony of an encounter between two individuals who live and share an aesthetic and emotional attachment to the lagoon city. Issa Diabaté, architect, contemporary actor of the architectural future of this city that never stops reinventing itself. François-Xavier Gbré, a photographer who has made architecture his preferred medium for apprehending the muted history of places by envisaging architectures as the sedimentary traces of the social and political changes of a country, the Ivory Coast.

This book, and the Album Architectures collection more broadly, aims to initiate a reflection on the definition of the notion of contemporary heritage through the valorisation of rich and singular architectural landscapes, not always identified, often invisibilised, of cities in perpetual urban change.

Born in 1978 in Lille (France), François-Xavier Gbré is a Franco-Ivorian photographer who lives and works between the Marais Poitevin in France and Abidjan.The photographic work of this mixed-race art-ist of Ivorian origin who grew up in the north of France apprehends architecture, landscape and urbanity in the form of a documentary testimony that evokes the architectural photography of Lewis Baltz, Stephen Shore and Guy Tillim. From Mali to Israel, from Lille to Rabat, François- Xavier Gbré photographs abandoned architectures bearing the traces of their country's social and political history. His photographs take a dis-tanced look at the buildings and the symbolic charge that history and historicity give them. They are inter-ested in the past, in the muted history of places, reveal the invisibilities of everyday life and petrify fragments of a world in perpetual mutation. In a soft radicality, he testifies of the in-between, of these moments of tipping revealed with force by the architecture.

François-Xavier Gbré's work can be found in the collections of the Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), the Tate Modern (London, UK), the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, USA), the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia), Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia), Chazen Museum of Art—University of Wisconsin (Madison USA), Walther Collection (Ulm, Germany), Rencontres d'Arles (Arles, France), Fonds National d'Art Contemporain (Paris, France) and Musée des Confluences (Lyon, France). In 2020, François-Xavier Gbré is the win-ner of the Louis Roederer Prize of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d'Arles.

Baptiste Manet is an architecte specialised in contemporary heritage. He is the co-founder and director, with Yann Legouis, of the Sapiens Architectes office. He is also the co-founder of the association Éditions Cosa Mentale and a teacher at the École nationale d'architecture de Paris-Belleville (Paris). In 2022, Baptiste Manet participated in the experimental residential programme for the research and study of artistic practice and thought, organised by the RAW Academy in Dakar and the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

Martial Manet has a PhD in Law and graduated in philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He has been Visiting Scholar at the Institute for African Studies at Columbia University (New-York). He teaches at the University of Paris I Panthéon- Sorbonne (Paris)

[shlooooom-blog]

Esther Calixte-Bea's Fyète-Souhou Tribe

Fyète-Souhou (formerly known as Fyète Souhou-te) is  a fictional tribe created by Esther Calixte-Bea inspired by her culture and personal life. Fyète meaning pride in haitian creole and Souhou meaning divine in guéré an ivorian dialect. Much like her last name being a combination of her haitian mother and ivorian father's last name, she combined haitian and guéré words to create the name of this tribe. Fyète-Souhou is divine pride or proud to be chosen by God. In this tribe, Calixte-Bea represents hairy black women, their everyday life, traditions and struggles while challenging eurocentric beauty standards. As a hairy women herself, the artist has discovered through her ivorian side of the family that her hairiness is hereditatry and that back in her great grandmother time body hair on women was seen as beautiful and not shameful. She decolonizes beauty through this tribe, discusses the topic of identity, lose of identity while reflecting on her upbringing in Canada. The artist uses painting, drawing, writing, fabric and more to create an immersive world. For Calixte-Bea, creating a fictional tribe is creating a space for healing and allowing the audience to discover an imaginary world they can escape in. 

[agelessphotography]

Abissa 1 from The Power of Alliances series, Nuits Balnéaires, 2021

[newleasemusic]

Birmingham Artist Lyco Returns With New Single ‘Crème De La Crème' ft. Camidoh

Birmingham Artist Lyco Returns With New Single ‘Crème De La Crème' ft. Camidoh

The UK and Africa come together for a beautiful blending of sounds for LYCO and CAMIDOH‘s new single ‘Crème de la Crème’. Nigerian born, UK raised singer/songwriter Lyco has been steadily releasing singles such as ‘Ice N Rum’ and ‘Gucci’ with artists such as Lotto Boyzz, Sneakbo, Ivorian Doll and 2Face, building a reputation for his melodic, smooth tracks. His new single is a flavoursome, sexy,…

[viviplaynet]

Eva Sita, hailing from Côte d'Ivoire, is carving a distinctive niche in the African music scene with her innovative fusion of traditional rhythms and contemporary Afrobeat. Her music, a harmonious blend of various genres like jazz, blues, and salsa, is a testament to the rich musical heritage of her country. Eva Sita exemplifies the dynamic evolution of African music while maintaining a deep reverence for its roots. A trailblazer in her own right, Eva Sita became the first female Ivorian student at the prestigious Berklee College of Music. Her journey as a self-made artist culminated in an eponymous EP, a global project recorded across three continents and in three languages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pO8lL-iFN0 This multicultural approach not only highlights Eva Sita's versatility but also her ability to weave diverse musical influences into a cohesive sound. In her music, Eva Sita's lead vocals soar passionately, complemented by ethereal backing harmonies, creating a sonorous and captivating soundscape. Her melodies are not just meticulously crafted; they possess an enchanting quality that lingers with listeners, evoking deep emotions and memories. Her latest EP, featuring songs like "All of My Feelings," showcases her talent for reaching a wide audience, from Pop and Latin enthusiasts to Afrobeat lovers. Each track on the EP is a compelling listen, offering a rich tapestry of sounds that blend seamlessly. But Eva Sita's artistry extends beyond just melodies and rhythms. Her lyrics, delivered in English, Spanish, and French, delve into the depths of human emotions and relationships. [caption id="attachment_12799" align="alignnone" width="1125"] Eva Sita Revolutionizing African Music With Her Tri-Lingual Fusion All Of My Feelings[/caption] This tri-lingual expression makes her music universally accessible and relatable, bridging cultural and linguistic divides. Through her songs, Eva Sita not only entertains but also enlightens, offering a window into diverse human experiences. Eva Sita stands out in the contemporary African music scene as an artist who not only entertains but also educates and connects with her audience on a profound level. Her unique blend of ancient rhythms with modern sounds, coupled with her multicultural and multi-lingual approach, positions her as a revolutionary figure in African music. Eva Sita's music is more than just a listening experience; it's a journey through the rich tapestry of human emotions, articulated through the universal language of music. https://open.spotify.com/album/3Um4ELMybEuylzE1VCCbmC?si=695oEovbTs6wc5L8IZ2AhQ