Freddy Tsimba
Freddy Tsimba (born 1967) be a sculptor den visual artist from de Democratic Republic of Congo. He has made sculptures from bullet casings collected on Congolese war battlefields. One of ein artwork entitled Au-delà de l'espoir (Beyond the hope) was commissioned by de municipality of Ixelles insyd Brussels wey dey install on de corner of Chaussée de Wavre den Longue-Vie street insyd Matonge district.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Dem born Tsimba was born insyd Kinshasa insyd 1967. He study at de Fine Art School insyd Kinshasa wey he get a degree on sculpture insyd 1989. He receive de silver medal at de Ottawa Jeux de la Francophonie insyd 2001.
Exhibitions
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Solo exhibitions
[edit | edit source]- 2007: Au-delà de l'espoir (Beyond the hope), installed on de corner of Chaussée de Wavre den Longue-Vie street insyd Matonge district, Brussels. Commissioned by de municipality of Ixelles.
- 2016: Au-delà de l'extrême, Halle de la Gombe, Kinshasa, D.R. Congo
- 2018: Out of chaos, Beaux Arts Gallery, London
- 2018: Porteuse de vies (Carrier of Lives), Théâtre national de Chaillot, Paris, insyd celebration of de 70th anniversary of de Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- 2020: Mabele eleki lola ! e earth, brighter than paradise, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium, curated by Insyd Koli Jean Bofane, with de scientific contribution of Henry Bundjoko
Group exhibitions
[edit | edit source]- 2008: Dey come from far away, part Miroirs, 8th Dakar Biennale, Musée Théodore Monod, Dakar, Sénégal
- 2014: Yango the first Kinshasa contemporary art biennial, Kinshasa, D.R. Congo
- 2015–20: Lumières d'Afriques, Paris; Abidjan; Geneva; Dakar; Rabat; Johannesburg
- 2019: Encore un effort, part of 1st Congo Biennale, Kin Art Studio, Kinshasa, D.R. Congo
Publications
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]- Mavambu (2011) – documentairy on Tsimba by Rosine Mbakam and Mirko Popovitch (26', DVcam)