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UNIQUE BRONZE SCULPTURES FROM BURKINA-FASO WEST AFRICA.
Issa Kiemtore is an artist with an extraordinary gift of turning pure bronze into sculptures.
Issa Kiemtore is a born artist. The art of bronze has been in the family since the 14e century and given on from father to son. The technique never changed.
Bronze art demands a long procedure, which begins with shaping an inspiration into warm flexible beeswax, and it ends with sandpapering, sometimes blackening and washing the finished sculpture with fine sand.
Every sculpture of the young artist Issa Kiemtore from Burkina Faso radiates affection and respect for the woman. Issa Kiemtore sees the female sex as a symbol of life. As we look at the social life, women come first. Every boy has a mother. She is the beginning of life.
All his sculptures are holding on to the essence of today’s cultural life in Burkina Faso. Sculptures of women preparing food in the traditional way, mothers cherishing their children, women carrying big bowls on their head.
Through his art he wants to show the life in Burkina Faso. Too often he meets western people having the only image of Africa as being poor, miserable and underdeveloped. He on the contrary wants to show the other side of Africa. Burkina Faso is not an underdeveloped country. We have our own, different way of life. Material welfare is often not very important to people, what is important is the warmth they find with each other. Being happy.
Since 1993, Issa is working with his family through his art at a project for sensitization for misfortune children. This project started a centre to professionalize the art of bronze and will be completed later with a driving school.
Issa Kiemtore had exhibitions in France, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
Issa with one of his master pieces
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