ART REFLEX INTERNATIONAL

  EXPOSITION A L'EGLISE DE LA MADELEINE 75008-PARIS  DU 1 AU 31 OCTOBRE 2012

                                                            FRANCIS MBELLA :   " LA FOI DANS LA COULEUR "

                                                                              Itinéraire d'un Peintre habité

                                                                                                  Francis MBELLA, à 4 Mois déjà, un pinceau sur la main      

                                          Cette Exposition beneficie du prêt exceptionnel des collections du

                                                     FRANCIS MBELLA MUSEUM - MOUNT CAMEROON-BUEA

                                   Vous connaissez l'Homme, decouvrez l'oeuvre. l'Oeuvre d'un Artiste engagée, un Art inséparable du geste de l'incarnation et qui demande la participation de la matière.

  INSCRIPTION ET RESERVATION  au cocktail d'inauguration le jeudi 04 octobre 2012 de 18H à 22H

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                                Francis MBELLA's Exhibition in Studio de l'Image Gallery - Paris - December 1990

        The aim of the work of art involves possibilities and probabilities, never certainties. It is always ambiguous, always likely to discard aspects of its meaning and to acquire other meanings. The representational object, on the other hand, involves narrative using sign and forms which make for an allusive, abridged and faster procedure, or on the contrary, developing further previously satisfactory solutions.

      Through aesthetics man reaches out to the future while at the same time influencing this future. It is not just a matter of the famous link between reality and the imagination, the problem of the image is infinitely richer, and involves discovering new fields of knowledge and possibly other realities.

Just as an image is made up of concrete elements whose links are to the possible rather than to the certain, in a similar fashion, living creation is too, in its fixed elements, an endless speculation on the renewal of man's models and ways of relating to his environment.

The work of art, separate, ambiguous, uncertain and always mobile, derives its status primarily through its unity in the imagination. We should recall that long after the words are forgotten, the art object still remains.

   Francis MBELLA,  Art Reflex International (Archives, 1990)

          Education is often less than it should be. And this causes one to hesitate to put forward in a few pages some of the solutions man has adopted when faced with the problems which aesthetics and art posed him. But perhaps education is close to something essential, searching through the tangle of trees in the hope of one day finding the real wood. This book, hopefully, will help you on your way to finding it.

          Eduquer, c'est trop souvent dénaturer. Aussi hésite-t-on à ramasser en quelques pages les attitudes que la pensée humaine a successivement adoptées en face des problèmes que lui posaient l'esthétique et l'art. Mais peut-être aussi éduquer rapproche-t-il de l'essentiel: cherchant les branches maîtresses enfouies dans le fouillis palpitant du feuillage, on atteint parfois le tronc. Cet ouvrage devrait en être le reflet.

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                                                        Le 25 Mai 2012 à 19 heures

                                                         LA SCAM, Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia, présente :

                  La vie et l' oeuvre du Peintre Francis MBELLA, l'un des derniers dinosaures de la peinture réflechie

                             Un film du Réalisateur Idriss DIABATE titré : " Francis MBELLA, Le raccourci vers le soleil"

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       Francis MBELLA's Exhibition : " GLANCE ON THE WOMAN " Art Reflex International Center MARCH-APRIL 2001  

                                                                                   The duty to communicate 

   Language requires a second phase, the art of communicating. Now, since symbolism, the counterpart to what is unexpressed,  or what is reputed to be impossible to express, has indeed invested a strange type of prestige in obscurity, an innate value.

     Our epoch has merit of recognising it has serious duty stagnate in old, threadbare forms, which, because they are worn out and used, have become repetitive and inexpressive. And this is healthy, moreover, in period governed by large aspirations and ambitions for its civilisations, and while this is not enough, it remains quietly active.

     It is up to art above all that belongs the duty to forge an expression of what aspires to be. This is, doubtless, why the public, moved by its deepest instincts, grants it such a place in the present time.

     Modern art should not be restricted to the self-satisfaction of artist merely enjoying themselves. For art and art alone, has the sole power to initiate and to install in the outer visible world, a new reality, something any artist worthy of the name bears within himself, innovation successfully and completely carrying out its mission as language.

            Danièle de Ricci,  Art Reflex International (Archives)