Eddy Vivier Murangwa

Eddy Vivier Murangwa likes contrasts: He combines worn out Budapest-shoes and artfully torn Jeans with an extravagant jacket that doesn’t really harmonize with his dreadlocks sticking out in all directions. He remains confident in all situations – even if he has to add a bit to his income by selling artistically designed paper notebooks on the flea market.

He easily conjures entire universes with subtle ink splashes, optical illusions and few figures. Mystical hand signals, memories of historical illustration, enigmatic language fragments, self composed poetry and just the right amount of gold tones create – together with his solid manual skills – a breath of mystic narratives.

He refuses all further going interpretation of his virtuoso and at the same time very intense paintings: he would only show how – inspired by dreams – the world could also be seen. Even from the last piece of wood, collected at the roadside, he is able to get out some poetry. He only needs a few steps – using quite a simple vocabulary – to draw the viewer into a hallucinogenic sphere.

By Gunnar Luetzow for Art Magazin