artist/ MAFUILA

FRANCE

Addy Mafuila
his artistic breaths

Physical and generous, the breathable painting of Addy Mafuila, rich with fever
human, burns the expanse alive. She creates sumptuous body-universes and
enielelles, and its gushing polychromy, constantly renewed, oxygenates each
canvas, because it never ceases to put the intensity where it is needed, that is to say
everywhere. Dark opacity and solar clarity alternately constitute a
primary expanse, stele of the universe from which life never ceases to emerge. There is no more
that the depth of a superbly inhabited space where an archaic memory
plays an essential role. In an adventurous and festive fairyland, Addy Mafuila digs
the intimate and the carnal, and all of humanity radiates its vital horizon.
African purity, warm, sensual and lyrical, even musical, incant
each of his works. Like the magical power of his incantations
chromatic. Addy Mafuila knows how to cultivate the color contrasts that make
birth the most vivid energies, and its striking and sacred appearances,
gushes out like geysers. Without borders and without limits, it captures without
restrain the sovereign energies that are shaking up the world. If boxing is at
she a recurring subject, who dares to sovereignly mix humor and tragedy,
the diverse human is its first territory of creation. By his art of
shares, she reinvents the mythical figure of the great ancestors, those of all
the cultures of the world, as she knows how to capture daily attitudes and
vitals of all those she may come across here or there. And, always, the imposing face
and tonic of the creatures it summons, timeless or contemporary,
historical or daily, implacable or benevolent, watches over our
destinies.
Addy Mafuila, in total creative freedom, wanders playfully and
joyfully in the scattered meanders of our time. She makes fun of the
grumpy seriousness, and his art, in constant inventive freshness, breathes
royally.

Christian Noorbergen