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Freddy Tsimba (born 1967) is a sculptor and visual artist from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has made sculptures from bullet casings collected on Congolese war battlefields.[1] One of his artwork entitled Au-delà de l'espoir (Beyond the hope) was commissioned by the municipality of Ixelles in Brussels and installed on the corner of Chaussée de Wavre and Longue-Vie street in Matonge district.[2]

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Biography

Tsimba was born in Kinshasa in 1967. He studied at the Fine Art School in Kinshasa where he got a degree on sculpture in 1989.[3] He received the silver medal at the Ottawa Jeux de la Francophonie in 2001.[4]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 2007: Au-delà de l'espoir (Beyond the hope), installed on the corner of Chaussée de Wavre and Longue-Vie street in Matonge district, Brussels. Commissioned by the municipality of Ixelles.[5]
• 2016: Au-delà de l'extrême, Halle de la Gombe, Kinshasa, D.R. Congo[6]
• 2018: Out of chaos, Beaux Arts Gallery, London[7]
• 2018: Porteuse de vies (Carrier of Lives), Théâtre national de Chaillot, Paris, in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights[8]
• 2020: Mabele eleki lola ! The earth, brighter than paradise, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium, curated by In  Koli Jean Bofane, with the scientific contribution of Henry Bundjoko[9]

Group exhibitions

• 2008: They come from far away, part Miroirs, 8th Dakar Biennale, Musée Théodore Monod, Dakar, Sénégal^{[citation needed]}
• 2014: Yango the first Kinshasa contemporary art biennial, Kinshasa, D.R. Congo[10]
• 2015–20: Lumières d'Afriques, Paris; Abidjan; Geneva; Dakar; Rabat; Johannesburg[11]
• 2019: Encore un effort, part of 1st Congo Biennale, Kin Art Studio, Kinshasa, D.R. Congo[12]

Publications

• Revue Noire, Spécial Kinshasa - Zaïre, n°21, juin-juillet-août 1996
• Freddy Tsimba. Sculpteur, Les carnets de la création, l'Œil, Paris, 2000
• Freddy Tsimba, l'esprit guerrier, Fondation Blachère, Apt, 2007
• Les Arts du Congo. D'hier à nos jours, Roger-Pierre Turine, éd. La Renaissance du livre, Bruxelles, 2007
• Freddy Tsimba - Légendes et saisons de métal, V. Lombume Kalimasi et C. Nzolo Ngamobu, Ed. Le Cri, 2012
• Singularité et universalité des destins : la démarche artistique de Freddy Tsimba, Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Cahiers D'Études Africaines, vol. 56, no. 223, 2016
• Au-delà de l'extrême, exhibition catalog, 2016
• Freddy Tsimba-Mabele eleki lola ! La terre, plus belle que le paradis, exhibition catalog, In Koli Jean Bofane et al., Kate'Art, 2020

Filmography

• Mavambu (2011) – documentairy on Tsimba by Rosine Mbakam and Mirko Popovitch (26', DVcam)

References

На других языках

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- [en] Freddy Tsimba

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[fr] Freddy Tsimba

Freddy Bienvenu Tsimba est un plasticien congolais né en 1967 à Kinshasa, capitale de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC), où il vit et travaille toujours. Formé à la sculpture et aux pratiques de la fonderie et de la soudure, il travaille à partir de matériaux ramassés sur les champs de bataille (douilles, cartouchières) et dans la rue (cuillères, capsules, clés, etc.). Il est particulièrement connu pour ses sculptures composées de douilles collectées dans les zones de conflit. Ces Silhouettes effacées sont le plus souvent des bustes, principalement de femmes enceintes, qui redonnent corps et existence aux victimes anonymes des guerres. Solidaire de l’humanité en souffrance, en RDC comme partout ailleurs dans le monde, Freddy Tsimba cherche à transcender cette souffrance en rappelant la puissance de la vie. De sa pratique inlassable naît une œuvre puissamment symbolique et universelle. Il est exposé dans de nombreux pays du monde.

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