No Cult No Culture
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Kouka combines performance and scenography, his work is akin to real urban interventions in order not only to promote Street Art as a mature and thoughtful art but also as an act of sharing by touching new audiences, helping to desecrate a sometimes elitist dimension of art.
Always guided by the desire for transmission, the artist gives drawing lessons to children, especially during his many trips to Africa.
Kouka was able to benefit from a residency at the HEC contemporary art space to raise awareness and integrate art into the lives of students.
The artist lives in Paris, but his career and his expression feed on his travels and his numerous encounters. His particular style denounces and questions the human condition.
Kouka flees academism, he stays away from noble materials preferring a poorer medium to “win in beauty” and allow the public to overcome the traditional landmarks with a new eye.
His first urban paintings appears in 2008 with the silhouette of Bantus warriors. During an original trip to Libreville (Gabon), he became aware of the omnipresence of Western imperialism established within spaces dedicated to culture in Africa. From then on, he decided to return to the fundamentals of his culture and to honor the memory of his continent.
Thus were born his first Bantu warriors who were born in 2008 at the International Center of Bantus Civilizations in Libreville. Since then, Kouka displayed his paintings of warriors, like a signature, wherever he goes. Recently, in May 2013, his Bantus took place on the white walls of the Medina of Azmmour (Morocco), as part of * Remp’art event to which he was invited. The Bantu warriors form an underground army, clandestine, faithful to the approach of the artist. Their presence on the city walls reminds us that the public space, like the world, belongs to no one and that if it is possible to grab a territory, it is not possible to appropriate another man’s culture.
Title : No cult no culture 2015