Solo show-new exhibition

Over the course of his exhibitions, the Cameroonian contemporary artist Moustapha Baidi Oumarou, born in 1997, asserts his “humanism” through his paintings. The artist scrutinizes the human being, man and woman, with an attentive eye and deceptively simple expressionist techniques. His characters, who are portrayed  without  nationality or origin,  show the human condition with simplicity and tenderness as well as  the birth of a new being: The flower-man.
Baidi Oumarou’s flower-men are reminiscent of the Mentawai of Sumatra, a naturalist society in which man is closely linked to nature, space and territory. The harmony between humans, plants and animals constitutes the balance of their ecosystem. Flowers are honoured and ritualised for their power to activate positive sensations and emotions.

Humanism consists of  re-evaluating the dignity of man, endowing him with reason and free will, placing him at the centre of the universe and encouraging his development. Applied to art, the humanist influence is manifested in the primacy given to man, in the form of a portrait with a predominance of emotion.
Oumarou’s humanism is militant and positive: his paintings evoke the most deprived, the forgotten and the silence of the voiceless. His paintings plead for a more just world. Without violence, he reminds us that we must transcend suffering through beauty. But not only that.

In this exhibition: “Dreams of Utopia” the artist plays with the emotions of the spectator by transfiguring reality and inviting him towards a dreamlike …..Utopia celebrating peace, love and harmony.

Exhibitions:
The precociousness of this 23 year old self-taught artist gives him a well established reputation on the continent and internationally. (Visual Arts Award at the Yawalta Maroua Festival, Cameroon. -Fine Arts at the University of Maroua. -Institute of Artistic Training of Mbalmayo)
-2018 Bolo espace art et culture, Douala and National Museum of Yaoundé and Doual’art fair. Short residency at “In and Off” Douala with Hako HANSON
-2019 “AFRICA NOW”, Galerie Claire Corcia, Paris, Akaa Paris As Known as Africa
-And in 2020: Investec Cape Town “Humanisme”, 1.54 London UK and Art Paris Salon de l’art Paris. translate