France
• 1950
Biography
He arrived in 1962 in Marseilles by boat, from Algeria. He went back there in 1965 with Fernand Pouillon for whom he was drawing of perspectives for the design of tourist facilities.
Passionate by African art and civilization, in love with the desert, he went to the Hogar desert in Algeria in 1975; he produced an in situ sculpture in the Atakor mountain that he named "Mademoiselle Kala Kala".
In 1987 he went back to the desert and produced the sculpture "The Cradle of Ilamane ".
He taught Applied Arts at the Diderot high school in Marseille for six years.
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Passionate by African art and civilization, in love with the desert, he went to the Hogar desert in Algeria in 1975; he produced an in situ sculpture in the Atakor mountain that he named "Mademoiselle Kala Kala".
In 1987 he went back to the desert and produced the sculpture "The Cradle of Ilamane ".
He taught Applied Arts at the Diderot high school in Marseille for six years.
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The year of birth of the artist is: 1950