Les traces d’interculturalité dans l’art visuel d’Engelbert Mveng

AUTEUR : Cyrille Ayayi KPONYO-HILLAH

ABSTRACT

The marks of interculturality in the visual art of Engelbert Mveng can be read through the colors, symbols and motives used in his paintings: they are part of the codified language of African art. This language essentially reveals the struggle of life and death, leading up to the triumph of life. By identifying the meaning of those same colors, symbols and motives in different cultures of Central and West Africa, we find consistent interpretations. These marks, signs of interculturality, show the common vision of the fight for life, engaged by art in African cultural diversity. Such a study reinforces the contribution of art to intercultural dialogue.