Yao Metsoko is a Franco-Togolese painter-sculptor, after a brief period in London, he now lives and works in Paris. Discover its history and its artistic inspirations. How did you find your artistic path? Since my childhood and very early, I was interested in art and more particularly in plastic arts. Seeing my talent, my mother encouraged me to draw pictures…
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How did you come to art, or how did art come to you? Since I was a child I have loved drawing, it was my real environment and the moments I felt the best were when I was drawing. I kept that passion, and after school, it was pretty clear to me that my studies would have been in that…
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If you had to describe yourself briefly in a couple of words, what would you say? Punk-pop artist. The music that matches with my paintings can be found on the album “Surfer Rosa“ by The Pixies. Growing up as a free spirit in East Germany, popular culture was my passion and subversion my stylistic device. The most important stages of…
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Short summary about you? I was born in Krakow, Poland in 1979 and immigrated to the USA with my mother when I was 5 years old. Istudied photography at Columbia College (1997-99), completing my BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2001.I currently reside and work in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. I am an artist,…
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What is your artistic singularity ? In all my artistic production, I do not try to represent reality, but rather the idea of reality. Images, unlike thoughts, do not impose opinions on things, but has to do with truth in the sense that it is the representation of our perceptions on a pure level. When I shoot, I focus my…
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How did you come to art, or how did art come to you? I grew up in a family of artists, my father was a cameraman for movies, my aunts actresses or painters, my grandfather a theater writer, It felt normal to be artistic in every move . Only when I attended school I realized that my upbringing was not…
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Short summary about you? I’m an artist and galleried residing in rural Pennsylvania in the north east of the United States. I am the director of the Factory Works Gallery and the Williamsport Community Darkroom both at the Pajama Factory, an arts complex here. I received my MFA from America’s oldest Arts school, the Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts in…
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The Naif Brief introduction of yourself I am self-taught and consider myself to be a craftsman first and foremost – my prime interest being in creating images. I love vintage cartoons and Eastern philosophy. Making a painting is, for me, very labour intensive and, I like to think, an extension of my spiritual practice rather than a conventional attempt to…
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Short summary about you? I am a landscape-focused painter, who has lived and worked in East London for 20 years. What is your art about? We live on the edge of Epping Forest in East London and the relationship between the urban and the natural is a constant source of inspiration to me. My most recent series of paintings was…
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Brief introduction of yourself. Talking about oneself is always difficult for me. I am me I paint in traditional oil techniques but in a different style. People have to go away from my paintings to see the details. Do your work engage with current events (and how)? It is difficult not to react on current events or impressions. I hear…
