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Ntota-Ntontolo was born in 1950 in Brazzaville (Republic of Congo). In 1969, he joined the school of painting Poto-poto in 1977 obtained a scholarship at the School of Fine Arts in Marseilles.
Fusion of color and freedom of forms. Ntota The painting, a African Congolese, has the strong vibrations of an opera in which the notes occur in swirls of color. Ntota composed his music in 3 acts: paintings, drawings and signs (including beautiful crocodile skins turned into colorful shores). With this balance of geometric masses that cross or merge them, tells Ntota on a festive tribulations of man in the universe and its various battles with the elements that surround it. Before the term secret of deep or provocative topics you can not dismiss this joke of Picasso. «African art? Not know. » Indeed there is a African art. Even if it is spent in a European bathroom, it remains true. With masks, a surprisingly rich bestiary, this painter invites us to discover Africa and its mysteries in everyday when the winds of magic happening with restraint. In these regards which pierces the interrogation of life in these flights of mythical animals, in those compositions where the sensitivity of sensual painter leaves prudishly guess Ntota we managed to communicate his happiness and his love of the earth. In listening to the beating heart of these paintings to the rhythm of breathing that may be ours, an emotion born out of respect, curiosity and affection. His «removal» built in the joy of the event and the organized chaos of the objects on the run is a happy example of this paradox created between the nesting of shapes and the freedom of movement. African art has influenced more than a painter Braque (in its small sculptures) Derain and especially Fernand Léger which faithfully reproduced Baoulé masks for the ballet «La création du monde». Solange Strimon. (New Poster Marseille) Ntota: Painter Always Do not ask Ntota, since when he joined in painting, he does not. Since the dawn of time probably. Ask him why he painted instead. By necessity, to preserve his mental balance, to express the life, anguish, joy… Fusion of colors and free forms. Painting Ntota ranges from figurative realism and depending on the thoughts of the painter. Difficult to define, as its inspiration is broad, it attracted as much as it worried. As this dance zucchini «or» swimming elephant ». Back in the Congo. Ntota born in 1950 in Brazzaville, a peasant mother and a father of the terminal driver, draws anywhere: wall, floor… The kid is gifted, but for lack of support, it can not continue his studies. Then as in fairy tales, everything changes. It is the encounter with a former colleague from school, he entered the painting school Poto-poto in 1969, his initiation by masters as famous African Zigoma, Ondongo, Ilok Bela and Ngavouka. The first exhibition… And departure for Marseilles in 1977. Noticed by the cultural adviser of France in Congo, he earned a scholarship to the School of Fine Arts in Marseilles. He continues to paint in his own way alone. He exhibited at the Cadrerie at Musépict, Maison de l'Etranger, the esc Marseille, Mary of the 8th and the 9th arrondissement, in the Festival of African Art Marssillargues at Mutual Marine in Toulon, Salon de Provence… African-inspired at the outset, his paintings slowly slide towards greater universality. In the abstract, it passed and figurative surrealism. Quietly, without noise, Ntota begins to acquire an early reputation. Africa not as a painter… But simply as an artist. Jip (internal newsletter for staff of the ccimp Marseille). |
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