Francis MBELLA 2025 au Grand Palais Paris8

A key figure in the revival of painting, Francis MBELLA reveals the 21st century’s ability to adapt to the contemporary world. Through the fatality of dreams, he challenges us on the issue of art and its means of expression.Inventor of the « Tapioca Technique », where reality is transfigured by emotion and subjectivity, and creator of movement: « the reflections of color » Francis MBELLA is a visual artist of subjective hues and reliefs.A former student at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he has held over 300 solo exhibitions and conferences worldwide. Chevalier des Arts et Lettres and Médaillé du Cercle des Arts de Paris, he was awarded the Mérite culturel de la Ville de Paris in 1990 by Jacques CHIRAC, then Mayor of Paris, and the Mérite culturel de l’Etat de Californie (USA) in 1994 in Sacramento by the then Governor Peter BARTON WILSON. He was awarded the same distinction at the UN (United Nations Organization) in Geneva in 2004 by its Director General, Sergeï ORDZHONIKIDZE ;Francis MBELLA stands out for his technique; in fact, color and relief are creative forces for him. Color works matter, it is a true activity of matter, it lives from a constant exchange of forces between matter and light. Thus, through the fatality of primitive dreams, Francis MBELLA renews the cosmic dreams that bind man to the elements, to fire, water and celestial air, to the prodigious materiality of earthly substances. From then on, for him, color has depth, it has thickness, it develops both in a dimension of intimacy and in a dimension of exuberance. He likes to link opposites. He prefers fusions, effusions and agreements to exclusions and ostracisms. His aim is to combine an intense taste for spontaneity with a desire to construct and organize the painted surface: « What arises spontaneously, » he says, « finds its order of construction in the architecture of my paintings. Stéphanie CARTIER P/O Art Reflex International hashtag#academieeuropéennedesarts hashtag#academiedesbeauxarts hashtag#connaissancedesarts hashtag#beauxarts hashtag#artension hashtag#francismbellaandthereflectionsofcolor hashtag#exhibitionparis hashtag#moulindecouprayhautemarne hashtag#lejournaldesarts