Where are you from and how does that affect your work?

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I come from a forest oasis located in Central Africa called Cameroon, rich in diversity, colors and cultures..

Well, like everywhere else, the social environment very probably shapes the inspiration of an artist at first, but it is also and above all the echo that this same society sends back to us through different vibrations, and particularly from the life in my subconscious, which feeds on the visible as well as the invisible. Therefore, when the doors from elsewhere open to me, the trigger occurs.

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Who is Marvin Gwet?

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Marvin GWET aka Tweg Virman is a 50-year-old who was genetically called by the path of Art. He could have become an architect (suspended dream).

I started very young, at the age of 9, to feel the need to express myself through drawing, which I perfected throughout my academic studies, until I met the medium of painting, which left its mark on me for good. later make it my job.

It was in 1996, through a guidance counselor, who after having been pleasantly amazed by my work (graphic games), that I entered a well-known Italian vocational school in Cameroon: IFA (Training Institute Artistic) not to name it. Three years later, I obtain a parchment at the end of which I am sufficiently equipped to spread out my talent, and which the same year (1999), allowed me to be nominated Laureate in the National Painting and Sculpture Competition under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture.

Who are your biggest artistic influences?

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"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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Tell me about your favorite medium?

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"It would be inappropriate to speak of any preference. I am simply driven by drawing and painting. They are inseparable in my humble opinion: If I don't draw, then I paint and vice versa."

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Where do you find inspiration?

 

"Big question! For me, it's a huge work on memory, inspiration comes from all walks of life, from all material or non-material psychic platforms, such as reading, dreams, myths and mysteries, cinema, listening. music etc..., which arouse in me certain emotions on which it feeds... I very often come out of my paradoxical sleep to interpret on paper what my imagination has seen!"

 

When is your favorite time to create?

 

"In general, it depends on my state of mind.  If I don't feel any call from the Inner Self, nothing happens, because I have to feed my bubble of inspiration enough until it reaches saturation, Then the rest is only the unveiling of its contents. .

Particularly, I work at night for silence and listening to myself, but I also happen to do it at unforeseen times under the background of music."

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Describe how art is important to you or  society?

 

"Like who would say: What would we be if music or even water had not existed?

Existence is a field of forces that must be kept in balance and Art plays a respectable role in it, I would even say sacramental, because its impact in our daily lives is not only human, but also divine. It is the mediumistic center between the Creator and us, the common denominator between all species known or not.. Capable of the worst as well as the best in the hands of whoever uses it..

Art is a way (x) that challenges us, informs us, educates us and perhaps, could make us reach Bliss if we manage to understand its codes..

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What motivates you to create?

 

"My motivation is very simple: that of providing good vibrations through my works, to all those who will be their future owners.

As I often say: a painting is a pond of mysteries, a sheet of sand that changes shape and direction with the winds... Isn't that one of the aspects of our own nature?

Deuxio: I also owe it to the search for understanding the mysteries of life, this way of searching, of probing into the Absolute, in order to extract a seed that we will sow in the human spirit to allow it to understand and apprehend the world around him."

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Can you describe your dream project?

 

"It would be that of carrying out the work that could bring peace and tranquility to an individual.

Among other things, I would like to share and exchange on the basis of experiences with artists from different backgrounds in order to produce a monumental work..

The transmission by the training of young budding artists is essential and important, because it is necessary to rebalance certain canonical values ​​in humans which are lacking today, if they are not already in decline.  Finally, I am very tempted to visit the Smithsonian Museum in New York and create an art gallery..thank you !"