Ibrahim Bemba Kébé Mali, 1996

Présentation
Born in Bamako, Ibrahim Bemba Kébé is a young Malian artist who graduated at the top of his class from the Balla Fasséké Kouyaté Conservatory of Multimedia Arts and Crafts in Bamako. From his father, a carpenter-welder, he learned very early about the role of drawing in construction trades and welding assembly techniques. Thereafter, he began self-taught calligraphy and screen printing and produced his first works as a painter.
 
In 2016, he joined the Conservatory to study visual arts, having stood out for the quality of his works and the associated research. He is a founding member and president of the very young Sanou’Arts collective, which brings together young students or graduates of the Conservatory hoping to confront the challenges of creation.
 
Ibrahim Bemba Kebe embarked on in-depth research into the cultural and formal riches of the Korèdugaw, which strongly inspired his painted and sculpted work. For him, it is a way of opening Mali’s art to the 21st century while firmly rooting it in the civilizational base of his country. This inspiration combined with the preference for recycling used materials that he shares with the korèdugaw, provides him with a fruitful perspective on the visual arts - a bias that he also links to concerns for the environment, a contemporary emergency par excellence.
 
Ibrahim Bemba Kébé’s work essentially revolves around identity and the relationship between society and tradition. He explores the different cosmogonies and their impact on the perspective, behaviour and way of being of his African contemporaries. As victims of trauma, the question of identity is recurrent for Africans and defining it is crucial for their rebirth. Kebe creates a background of a maritime universe, where several elements mix at the centre, in which Afro men and women are magnified by their beauties and attitudes.
Œuvres
  • Blood Memory
    Ibrahim Bemba Kébé
    Blood Memory, 2025
    Mixed media / acrylic on burlap
    158 x 170 cm
  • Blue Eyes
    Ibrahim Bemba Kébé
    Blue Eyes, 2023
    Mixed Media / acrylic on burlap
    80 x 61 cm
  • Elevation
    Ibrahim Bemba Kébé
    Elevation, 2023
    Mixed Media / acrylic on burlap
    150 x 121 cm
  • Meditation
    Ibrahim Bemba Kébé
    Meditation, 2024
    Mixed Media / acrylic on burlap
    205 x 210 cm
  • Rebirth
    Ibrahim Bemba Kébé
    Rebirth, 2023
    Mixed Media / acrylic on burlap
    155 x 106 cm
  • Salon of Transmission
    Ibrahim Bemba Kébé
    Salon of Transmission, 2025
    Mixed media / acrylic on burlap
    162 x 100 + 164 x 102 cm
  • San Kaaba Saga - When the sky split Open
    Ibrahim Bemba Kébé
    San Kaaba Saga - When the sky split Open, 2025
    Mixed media / acrylic on burlap
    198 x 150 cm + 198 x 150 cm
  • Seated Spirits
    Ibrahim Bemba Kébé
    Seated Spirits, 2025
    Mixed media / acrylic on burlap
    175 x 146 cm
  • Secrets woven, Destinies crossed
    Ibrahim Bemba Kébé
    Secrets woven, Destinies crossed, 2024
    Mixed media / acrylic on burlap
    180 x 180 cm
  • Silent Covenant
    Ibrahim Bemba Kébé
    Silent Covenant, 2025
    Mixed media / acrylic on burlap
    204 x 150 cm
    Vendu
  • The March of the Heirs
    Ibrahim Bemba Kebe
    The March of the Heirs, 2025
    Mixed media / acrylic on burlap
    230 x 274 cm
  • The shadow of the revolution of the self
    Ibrahim Bemba Kébé
    The shadow of the revolution of the self, 2024
    Mixed media / acrylic on burlap
    210 x 200 cm
    Vendu
  • Whisper of the Sky
    Ibrahim Bemba Kébé
    Whisper of the Sky, 2025
    Mixed media / acrylic on burlap
    175 x 78 + 161 x 74 cm
  • Whispered Ascent
    Ibrahim Bemba Kébé
    Whispered Ascent , 2025
    Mixed media / acrylic on burlap
    225 x 158 cm
    Vendu
  • Yellow Petals
    Ibrahim Bemba Kébé
    Yellow Petals, 2024
    Mixed Media / acrylic on burlap
    140 x 121 cm
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