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Congolese artist
Freddy Tsimba
Born1967 (age 57–58)
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
NationalityDemocratic Republic of Congo
OccupationSculptor

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. 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.

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. He received the silver medal at the Ottawa Jeux de la Francophonie in 2001.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Au-delà de l'espoir (Beyond the hope), Brussels

Group exhibitions

  • 2008: They 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

  • 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

References

  1. "International Congolese Sculptor presents first solo exhibition with Beaux Arts London". Art Africa. 3 April 2018. Retrieved 2022-05-04.
  2. "Au-delà de l'Espoir – Ixelles | BE-monumen". be-monumen.be (in French). 2020-04-22. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  3. "Freddy Tsimba, sculpter la guerre". La Croix (in French). 2018-12-10. ISSN 0242-6056. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  4. "Les médaillés par édition | Jeux de la francophonie". www.jeux.francophonie.org. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  5. "Ixelles Une sculpture de Freddy Tsimba trônera bientôt à Matonge : Un cri « Au-delà de l'espoir »". Le Soir. Retrieved 2022-05-04.
  6. "Sculpture : Freddy Tsimba va « Au-delà de l'extrême » | adiac-congo.com : toute l'actualité du Bassin du Congo". adiac.netisse.eu. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  7. "International Congolese Sculptor presents first solo exhibition with Beaux Arts London - ART AFRICA". 2018-04-03. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  8. "Art, aesthetics and international politics: Freddy Tsimba's Porteuse de Vies (Carrier of Lives) in perspective – IFAIR". Young Initiative on Foreign Affairs and International Relations. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  9. "Welcome | Temporary exphibition Mabele Eleki Lola - Freddy Tsimba". expotsimba.africamuseum.be. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  10. "Yango (Kinshasa. 2014)" (in French). Archived from the original on 2021-09-25. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  11. "Lumières d'Afriques: Rencontre avec Freddy Tsimba & Nyaba Ouedraogo à la Librairie-Galerie Congo - African Artists for Development". aad-fund.org. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  12. "RDC - Culture: La 1ère édition du festival Congo Biennale a fermé ses portes avec succès - Eventsrdc.com". www.eventsrdc.com (in French). Retrieved 2022-05-03.

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