Painting Exposition: Yves Goscinny, Ramsy King, Klaus Hartmann and Mathew Andrew Simbila

Painting Exposition
Paintings by Yves Goscinny, Ramsy King, Klaus Hartmann and Mathew Andrew Simbila
10.11.2015 - 22.11.2015
Opening: 10.11.2015, 6.30 pm

The exhibition starting at the Alliance Française on the 10th of November and running until the 22nd, will display artworks not yet exhibited by new and exceptionally talented Tanzanian visual artists and two invited foreign artists.

For the Tanzanian participation, you will discover in particular, Ramsy King, an essentially self-taught artist (born in Zansibar) with a minimal contact with the University of Dar es Salaam Fine and Performing Arts Department, who has succeeded on its own practice to assemble a very personal and dashing style of painting.

Another Tanzanian artist also featured in the exhibition, Mathew Andrew Simbila (born in Tabora), has taken a very different road to represent wildlife, going through a very brief Tingatinga initiation to then liberate his refrained natural sketching ability and dramatically rejuvenate this particular genre of painting.

Yves Goscinny was born in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (Formerly Leopoldville, Ex- Belgian Congo) in 1944. He has been working in developing countries (Honduras, Togo, Haiti, Jamaica, Chad, Ethiopia, Mauritania and Tanzania) for international organisations (UNO and EU). After years of collecting other artists work and organizing various exhibitions for contemporary artists in Tanzania, he was a latecomer to the practise of art. As a self-taught artist with out any formal art education, he identifies himself as an intuitive expressionist painter.

The Berlin-based German painter Klaus Hartmann will exhibit landcapes, essentially inspired by his journeys in the southern highlands of Tanzania and the regions around Kilwa Kivinje and Bagamoyo. He was born in Eisleben (a small town in formally East Germany) in 1969. After an apprenticeship as orthopedic shoemaker he studied at Art Academies in Hamburg and Vienna. Not until later, when I was an art student, did he first travel to East Africa. 2011 and 2013 he gave lessons in painting at TaSUBa (Bagamoyo College of Arts) in collaboration with Goethe Institut Dar es Salaam.