MEDI1TV Afrique : #Chronique_culture du 10-10-24 - 10/10/2024
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00:00Welcome to Mediantv, art in this chroniculture and zoom on the Cameroonian plastician Jean-Michel Dissaquet who participates in the Biennale de l'Art de Venise for this year 2024.
00:20Always a notebook and a pencil in hand, without really trying to improve his stroke of the pencil, Jean-Michel Dissaquet draws, reproduces tirelessly each interesting detail on which his eye comes to rest.
00:35Curious and creative, he likes to indulge himself in slightly crazy experiments. Old paper, newspaper and creative, clay, earth, clay, metal, linen, scotch, everything is for him an object of transformation and recovery.
00:49Little son of a great traditional chef, he sees himself taught ancestral rites and traditions, which curiously pushes him to want to better understand the contemporary world in which he is registered.
01:01An innate artist, for him, it is not enough to know what his origins are to find his place in our modern societies.
01:09Jean-Michel Dissaquet hammers the canvas, engraves fabrics and sews with copper wires. I suggest you listen to him.
01:17I work on the resurrection of so-called dead materials and I don't really like the term recycling because at some point we recycle the genes, we are the product, we carry the mark of our ancestors.
01:30And for me, the so-called recovery materials are materials that carry the mark of time and even history. It is through these materials that I succeed in having the color, the shape and even the symphony of the society in which I am registered.
01:49The world discovered Jean-Michel Dissaquet, this self-taught as a promoter of picto-sculpture, which he defines as the intersection point between the different forms of plastic art.
02:02The assembly of wood, aluminum, plastic, copper, glass, etc. is the strength of the father of picto-sculpture, a discipline in plastic art.
02:15Born of and in the art of an architect father, on July 19, 1983 in Yaoundé, Jean-Michel Dissaquet is from the Cameroonian coastline.
02:27Since his childhood, he has developed an awakened view of his environment and is very happy to reproduce objects, scenery, faces, his observations of nature. I suggest you listen to him.
02:42In 2009, Valère Epée defined a mode of expression as picto-sculpture. According to him, picto-sculpture is the marriage between painting and sculpture.
02:58I would not limit myself to this level because I am passionate about animation, movement. And for a work to be alive, it must have a soul.
03:10And it is animated when it is, the materials are in harmony, release a certain frequency, a certain vibration, and at the same time also when it is animated, because the human is animated.
03:24And for me, the picto-sculpture, the art of crossing, is an art that is inspired and that draws its source in human nature.
03:33And music to finish with the American singer and virtuoso pianist John Baptiste, who releases his album 100% Piano in tribute to Beethoven.
03:43The album, entitled Beethoven Blues, will be released in November. And when John Baptiste, winner of a Grammy Award, was a 9 to 10-year-old child, he went from one musical world to another, participating in local piano competitions on the day, and then playing in nocturnal places in the heart of New Orleans.
04:01Freed from the rigidity of genres, but also from the acidity, these tastes are imbued with each other. He is surprised to transform classical works into songs of blues and gospel.
04:14On November 15, John Baptiste will release his very first solo piano album, a collection of similar compositions.
04:24Titled Beethoven Blues, John Baptiste collaborates in a certain way with Beethoven by imagining the immediately recognizable works of the German pianist in something fluid, extending through the musical stories.
04:39Starting with the main single, Für Elise Baptiste, whose simple intro is known all over the world. I invite you to listen and savor this excerpt.
05:39Magical, John Baptiste. Thank you, dear viewers, for your loyalty. The information continues on our different channels, Arabic media TV and African media TV, Maghreb media TV and of course on our digital media, medianews.com.
06:39Music.