Pascal Konan
Artworks
![Pascal Konan](/photos/art_45/22f5906f815ea9b70d4b10dae3385efe.jpg)
70x50 cm
mix medias on canvas
![Pascal Konan](/photos/art_45/d1cdca5c579b91c7d33502c02d1db544.jpg)
70x50 cm
mix medias on canvas
![Pascal Konan](/photos/art_45/ec23837e9b2135605054f304a643c9bf.jpg)
70x50 cm
mix medias on canvas
![Pascal Konan](/photos/art_45/5590a7e8068697a14b0562a1b669c770.jpg)
120x120 cm
mix medias on canvas
![Pascal Konan](/photos/art_45/9ced26c5d06c8fb6fc0adbe1f6b2da28.jpg)
100x90 cm
mix medias on canvas
![Pascal Konan](/photos/art_45/6beb7ee7b624e5b53c67c7b3a5da1505.jpg)
120x120 cm
mix medias on canvas
![Pascal Konan](/photos/art_45/tn2_22f5906f815ea9b70d4b10dae3385efe.jpg)
![Pascal Konan](/photos/art_45/tn2_d1cdca5c579b91c7d33502c02d1db544.jpg)
![Pascal Konan](/photos/art_45/tn2_ec23837e9b2135605054f304a643c9bf.jpg)
![Pascal Konan](/photos/art_45/tn2_5590a7e8068697a14b0562a1b669c770.jpg)
![Pascal Konan](/photos/art_45/tn2_9ced26c5d06c8fb6fc0adbe1f6b2da28.jpg)
![Pascal Konan](/photos/art_45/tn2_6beb7ee7b624e5b53c67c7b3a5da1505.jpg)
Biography
Pascal Konan was born in 1979 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. A graduate of the National School of Fine Arts in Abidjan, Pascal Konan now teaches painting there while practicing his artistic activity. Staging the daily life of the inhabitants of Abidjan, the artist interprets a particular emotion, that produced by African cities through their affluence and the exuberant profusion of sounds and smells that characterize them. Pascal Konan's whole approach thus lies both in the exaltation of a happy childhood spent in one of the suburbs of Abidjan, but also in the testimony of the precariousness of an Africa grappling with urbanity. understanding the human soul leads him to explore the streets of Ivory Coast in search of collective life, of the spirit, which handles the game between what is open to the eye and what is hidden below. How identities develop from interactions to the movement that begins as public, then becomes private and returns to the public. Pascal's work reflects on interior and exterior lives using the relationship to space as a source of belonging, where the African street serves as a metaphor of identity in continuous movement, where the physical private and public spheres are hardly divided into separate concepts and In a context where social divisions and the degradation of the human condition are accentuated, Pascal Konan advocates through his works individual action to concretize humanism. Pascal Konan has been awarded several prizes and distinctions. in 2012 he won the UEMOA 0 prize for the 10th biennial of DAK’ART. IN 2014, the artist won the Christian Latier prize granting him the possibility of carrying out a residency at the CitéInternationale des Arts in Paris. 2012 Master 2 in Painting, INSAAC, Abidjan 2004-2006 Certificate of Pedagogical Aptitude for the Teaching of the Arts Plastics, INSAAC, Abidjan2002-2004 Diploma of Higher Artistic Studies (painting), Major of promotion, Fine Arts, Abidjan 2000-2002 Diploma of General Artistic Studies, Fine Arts, Abidjan 1997-2000 Bac series H1, high school artistic education, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Exhibitions
Personal exhibition
Avril 2019 : exposition personnelle à la galerie Eureka, Abidjan
Juillet 2017 : exposition à la rotonde des arts Abidjan plateau
2007 : Exposition privée à la galerie Art du temps(Abidjan)
EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES
Février 2019 : exposition 1 .54, jardin rouge, Marrakech, Maroc
2016 : Sélection officielle au Salon Inter. de l’Art contemporain du Mali Ségou ’Art
2016 : Exposition à l’Alliance Française de Pretoria, Afrique du Sud.
2016 : Hommage à la Biennale de Dakar, Martini, Suisse
2016 : Exposition Internationale des arts de la diversité à Nice, France.
2014 : Exposition maison d’AISSA DIONE à la 4é édition de PARTCOURS à Dakar
2014 : Participation à la semaine culturelle ivoirienne au Burkina Faso
2014 : Exposition à la Fondation Donwahi
2013 : Participation aux 7e Jeux de la francophonie à Nice (France)
2012 : participation au IN et au OFF de la 10 e édition de la biennale internationale de l’art
africain contemporain (Dak’art 2012)
2011 : Participation au Salon International des Arts Plastiques d’Abidjan (SIAPA)
2011 : Exposition à La Rotonde des Arts Contemporains d’Abidjan
2010 : Exposition à la BICICI « Ami des arts »
2009 : participation aux 6e
Jeux de la Francophonie à Beyrouth au Liban
2009 : Exposition au musée de Niamey (Niger) au 1er jeu de la CENSAD
2009 : Exposition à la galerie dominante ;Abidjan
2008 : Banque mondiale(Abidjan)
2003 : Festival de l’eau Abidjan
2001 : Semaine culturelle du musée des civilisations de côte d’ivoire
EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
Distinctions
2016 Prix spécial du Jury au Salon Inter. de l’Art contemporain du Mali Ségou’Art
2014 Lauréat du prix Christian Lattier donnant droit à une résidence à la cité
Internationale des arts de Paris .
2012 Lauréat du prix UEMOA à la 10e biennale de DAK’ART 2012
2009 Grand prix Guy Nairay (Biennale des jeunes artistes plasticiens de côte d’ivoire)
2009 Médaillé d’or aux premiers jeux de la CEN-SAD à Niamey au Niger
2003 Prix spécial du jury au Festival de l’eau