Freddy Tsimba

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Freddy Tsimba (born 1967) is a sculptor and visual artist from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has made sculptures from bullet casings collected on Congolese war battlefields. One of his artwork entitled Au-delà de l'espoir (Beyond the hope) was commissioned by the municipality of Ixelles in Brussels and installed on the corner of Chaussée de Wavre and Longue-Vie street in Matonge district.

Biography

Tsimba was born in Kinshasa in 1967. He studied at the Fine Art School in Kinshasa where he got a degree on sculpture in 1989. He received the silver medal at the Ottawa Jeux de la Francophonie in 2001.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 2007: Au-delà de l'espoir (Beyond the hope), installed on the corner of Chaussée de Wavre and Longue-Vie street in Matonge district, Brussels. Commissioned by the municipality of Ixelles
• 2016: Au-delà de l'extrême, Halle de la Gombe, Kinshasa, D.R. Congoz
• 2018: Out of chaos, Beaux Arts Gallery, London
• 2018: Porteuse de vies (Carrier of Lives), Théâtre national de Chaillot, Paris, in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• 2020: Mabele eleki lola ! The earth, brighter than paradise, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium, curated by In  Koli Jean Bofane, with the scientific contribution of Henry Bundjoko

Publications

• Revue Noire, Spécial Kinshasa - Zaïre, n°21, juin-juillet-août 1996
• Freddy Tsimba. Sculpteur, Les carnets de la création, l'Œil, Paris, 2000
• Freddy Tsimba, l'esprit guerrier, Fondation Blachère, Apt, 2007
• Les Arts du Congo. D'hier à nos jours, Roger-Pierre Turine, éd. La Renaissance du livre, Bruxelles, 2007
• Freddy Tsimba - Légendes et saisons de métal, V. Lombume Kalimasi et C. Nzolo Ngamobu, Ed. Le Cri, 2012
• Singularité et universalité des destins : la démarche artistique de Freddy Tsimba, Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Cahiers D'Études Africaines, vol. 56, no. 223, 2016
• Au-delà de l'extrême, exhibition catalog, 2016
• Freddy Tsimba-Mabele eleki lola ! La terre, plus belle que le paradis, exhibition catalog, In Koli Jean Bofane et al., Kate'Art, 2020

Filmography

• Mavambu (2011) – documentary on Tsimba by Rosine Mbakam and Mirko Popovitch (26', DVcam)

References

External links

Media related to Freddy Tsimba at Wikimedia Commons

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