Obou Gbais

b. 1992, Côte d'Ivoire / Germany

Obou Gbais (Peintre Obou, b. 1992, Guiglo, Côte d'Ivoire) is a painter who lives in Germany and Côte d'Ivoire. In 2014 he entered the National School of Fine Arts in Abidjan, graduating in 2019 with a master's degree in painting under the supervision of the artist Pascal Konan. Having lived through the aftermath of the crisis that began in 2002, he depicts crowds, urban informal settlements, women and families; a recurring motif is the Dan mask turning into a living face. He paints in acrylic and uses collage. Since 2017 he has taken part in exhibitions in Africa and Europe. In 2022 his painting La Liberté, dedicated to Ukraine's fight for freedom, was shown at the Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum in Vilnius.

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