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PART 1

Robert SEVE, Clément-Marie BIAZIN
and African Art

" A long fight for the emergence and the recognition of a Contemporary African Art "

"A living museum of ancestral arts", "historiographer", "artist-poet" with an astonishing palette of clarity and humanity, Clément-Marie BIAZIN offers us an exceptional picturial work of art, unique in its kind, wich reveals both a painting and a piece of history, and which serves today as a valuable document.

A self-taught artist who began painting in his mid-forties__ and the first black african artist to produce a work of art of such importance__ Clément-Marie BIAZIN was the first african artist to be the center-point of a film (1967) (available in french and in english) and of a complete monography (written by professor Jean LAUDE from Sorbonne in 1977, with an introduction by Michel LEIRIS).

In 1978 Clément-Marie BIAZIN was to be the first black african artist to have important personal exhibitions consecrated to his work in some of the most prestigious european Museums : the STEDELIJK MUSEUM of AMSTERDAM in 1978, the MUSEUM OF MODERN ART of DUSSELDORF in 1980, and the Museum for African and Oceanic Arts (MAAO) of PARIS in 1994.

Clément-Marie BIAZIN died of leprosy on 3rd January 1981.