Africa-Press – Angola. The Angolan Evan Clever is one of the artists present at the 1st Guinea-Bissau Art and Culture Biennial, under the motto “Mandjuandadi: Cultural Identities”, which will run until May 31, 2025, in the city of Bissau, an initiative of the MoAC Biss Biennial Foundation. The program includes more than 50 activities in areas such as music, literature, plastic and visual arts, cinema, performing arts and conferences. Among the invited international plastic artists are Mónica de Miranda (Portugal), Vhils (Portugal), Sónia Gomes (Brazil) and the Angolan Evan Claver, all curated by the renowned Guinean artist Nú Barreto.
The work presented by Evan Clever with the title “Big Kaombo”, in a clear and ironic reference to the ‘big apple’ of New York City, is an installation with 24 yellow drums used in everyday life in Angola to transport cooking oil, gasoline/diesel and water, or as seats – produced by the national company Topack.The drums measure 160 cm in height and 210 cm in width, and are painted in black oil paint on the front and back. As an installation, they invite the public to walk around and interact with them.
“I mainly use social and political satire, questioning the veracity of the media and the passivity of observers”, as Evan himself says. The artist creates a theatrical realm in which images serve as seductive weapons of expression.
According to the organizers, the Guinea-Bissau Art and Culture Biennial “celebrates the richness, diversity and strength of Guinea-Bissau’s cultural identity, promoting dialogue between local traditions and contemporary expressions”.
The Biennial proposes itself as a space for the international affirmation of the people, collective heritage, references and artistic expression of Guinea-Bissau, inspired by the “Mandjuandadis” (Identities in Freedom), which are traditional spaces of collective creation and sociocultural resistance.Evan Claver, a self-taught artist born in 1987 in Luanda, began drawing at an early age. He studied film and cinematography. He is known for using drawings (scribbles) to portray the dynamics, chaos and movement of urban life, adopting a detached perspective that allows him to represent the frenetic reality of everyday life through lines.
The artist works in Angola with the galleries TheArtAffair and Afrikanizm, and with the production company MAIA TANNER.
His artworks are part of several national and international private collections.
Evan Claver is an emerging artist who has participated in numerous exhibitions.
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