Jocelyn Akwaba-Matignon

THE ARTIST
Artist Painter living in Guadeloupe, born in 1961, titular from the Higher National Diploma of Visual Art, Jocelyn Akwaba-Matignon has realized, regularly for twenty-five years, exhibitions here and elsewhere, where it reveals his artistic research on the multiple facets of his origins. His triangular course (Europe-Africa-America) with the image of his logo, is a quest of Being, a research and a permanent questioning on the magic of the world and the mystery of the life.
Currently, it offers us an American crossing with the Native American part of our “Being Caribbean”. Jocelyn Akwaba-Matignon is a great reader, it also conducts research on sacred geometry, the myths of Mesoamerica, the Native American spirituality, the alchemical quest, symbolic numbers, the strength of Mother Earth, the mystery of the masks, on the unseen or revealed to our consciousness, the illusion of the visible world. He takes us into the space of the subtle and the unspeakable.

THE SYMBOLISM OF HIS LOGO
At first sight, his triangular logo symbolizes his journey between Europe, Africa and America. No doubt, too, it symbolizes water, female, the trinity, the three alchemical principles, the perception of the invisible.

HIS CHARACTER : “K...

Solo exhibitions:
2014_”Les 33 de Bon Gré”, Guadeloupe et Paris
2014_”Les chercheurs de l'existence”, médiathèque du Lamentin, Guadeloupe
2012_Etablissement Claude Blandin, "Joby Bernabé & Jocelyn Akwaba-Matignon", Jarry , Guadeloupe
2009_« à la reprise », Le jardin de Malanga, Trois-Rivières, Guadeloupe
2003_« Mass & bwa bwa », Galerie Modub'Art, Paris
2001_« l'esprit de la terre », Le temple du goût, Nantes
1999_Château de Gisors, Normandie
1996_Espace d’Art contemporain Onyx, St Herblain
1996_Conseil de l’Europe, Strasbourg
1992_Village d'artistes de Rablay sur Layon