Elevate, 2017

Manitoba  

An atypical journey… Manitoba, by his artist name, born in 1966 in Sétif, Algeria, lives and works in Biganos on the Arcachon basin. 7 years ago, he took a 360-degree turn and left his profession as a chemist to devote himself to his revelation, painting. This total questioning allowed him to express his great freedom as an artist. Anartist, on the one hand in reaction to societal behaviors which paralyze many minds. But also to shake off this gloom and this funny habit that humans have of complaining and believing that everything comes from the outside ... Manitoba takes us on a journey into its colorful and spiritual universe where shapes and colors come together to infinity. His art transmits the ardor and thirst for life, inspired by an original movement in the spirit of an ancestral memory, close to the primitive arts. The anartist invites us to the source of all these lives around us and this natural song of hope that grows beyond borders and other forms of conditioning. A bit of a shaman, he invites us into the silence between words, as if out of time, for a moment ...