MIAMI ART BASEL 2024
COLLECTION
These paintings will exhibited at Miami Art Basel 2024
from December 6th - 9th in the Wynwood Art District of Miami,FL.
BLACK & WHITE
SERIES
A series of black and white compositions from Marvin's personal collection.
Q&A with
Marvin Gwet
Who are your biggest artistic influences?
"I would say the finesse and accuracy of Leonardo da Vinci's drawing.
In addition to African Art, which undoubtedly led me to this artistic approach developed by one of my mentors, Professor Pascal Kenfack, who wants that when creating a pictorial work, the form is revealed from the bottom. He baptized it: the KALIA... It's very cerebral as an exercise..
My curiosity has also led me to broaden my range of genres, which has a strong impact on science fiction, abstraction, listening to nature and inner dialogue through the voice of silence."
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Meet The
Artist
Marvin GWET aka TWEG Virman is a painter who received a gift from nature from his early childhood. Very young, he began to feel the need to express himself graphically through drawing by copying the comic book authors (Marvel, Conan the Barbarian, Spiderman, etc ...) that his mother offered him, who herself was already "an artist at heart"; attentive, cultivated woman, of great inner beauty, she rocked my ears with melodies and songs of Negro-spirituals (Golden Gate quartet, Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Myriam Makeba, Marvin Gaye, Percy Sledge, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Billie Holiday, the Beatles etc ....) and many other musical styles in vogue from the sixties - seventies era.
On my fifth birthday, she gave me a vinyl LP of a famous soul singer whose first name I bear and whom I consider my most precious possession at the moment.
I experiment with the use of natural pigments (Charcoal, mineral powders, etc.), to try to adapt them or mix them with certain more contemporary techniques: "Revive and give a second life to these age-old practices which tend for the most part to die out one after the other.
Drawing allowed me to respond to solitude, it was an internal dialogue that allowed me to find an imaginary companion. Having grown up in this particular universe of openness, sounds, listening and sensitivity, it could not be the result of an unsuspected chance that I was destined to follow this path: my inner path....
It is all this baggage of memories that has shaped the person I am today.
