CasziB Casimir Bationo

The contemporary painter Casimir Bationo / CasziB. is originally from the Lélé Tribe in Center- West Burkina Faso and was born in Adjamé (Ivory Coast) in 1982. He now works and leaves in Ouagadougou.After immersing himself in the worlds of painting, life drawings, photography, lighting and motion pictures, he then formally attended a 3 years training in contemporary painting, acquiring crucial techniques to perfect his art and unique style.Having lived in Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Morocco, 

Discovering CasziB 's work is often compared to embarking on a haunting adventure made of faces with piercing, seizing eyes that seem to follow you everywhere and dare you to truly listen to their life stories and imagine their fates in a world where the beauty fights the cruel, where the delicate triumphs over the violent. The core message of the paintings is often referring to difficult and harsh subjects such as the place of men in nature, racism, homelessness highlighted by the delicacy, the grace and even the tenderness with which it is represented. CasziB's art is that much more powerful because it unsettles, it disturbs, it questions but most importantly because through the discovery of its unique world it prompts a discovery of oneself.⁠