Jacob Bleu (CI)

1 November 2019 City Sonic

Trans Travelling Blues - Migrations #7 (2018)

This video was made from paintings related to the Migrations series by Ivorian visual artist, Jacob Bleu, wherin Belgian/French sound producer Paradise Now was invited to compose a series of organic soundscapes. This seventh migration (from the Migrations album released in 2018 on the Transonic label) is a kind of ethereal post-blues that slowly stretches out, as pictorial works being set in slow motion. It reflects the dramatic reality of these thousands of nameless migrants and the imaginary associated with the desperate quest for a better world, as well as the energy of life that drives them.

Co-creation Jacob Bleu (CI) + Paradise Now (Be).
Production: Transcultures/Transonic.

Biography

Jacob Bleu graduated from the National School of Fine Arts of Abidjan. Since 1998, he teaches his passion for painting to students. As a multidisciplinary artist, he handles brush, pen, lens and multimedia brilliantly. In 2001, he represented the Ivorian Coast at the Games of La Francophonie in Canada. After this, several exhibitions abroad followed. In 2007, he initiated the international festival of visual arts in Abidjan (AVA) and brought together some fifty major artists and lecturers from around the world, in Abidjan. For the first time in Africa, In 2017, he initiated the International Meeting of Digital Arts of Abidjan (RIANA), at the French Institute of the Ivorian Coast. After having collaborated or contributed to the flourishing of several art centers and cultural promotional structures, Jacobleu opened, Abidjan, in 2014 and the “Lebasquiat Art Gallery” (a tribute to Jean-Michel Basquiat), which hosts many artists in a transversal vision.