ARTWORKS

Casimir Balibié Bationo [CasziB.] is originally from Burkina Faso and was born in the Ivory Coast in 1982. He has lived and worked in many countries including most recently in Mozambique and Morocco.  He is a frequent traveler to Europe, the United States and South America for exhibitions and his work is held in numerous private collections, as well as in public institutions such as the City Hall of Saint Laurent du Maroni in French Guyana, the City Hall of Villeneuve les Avignon in France and at the Franco-Mozambican Cultural Center in Maputo, Mozambique. He exhibits multiple times a year in Europe and the United States. CasziB has been among the finalists at the prestigious Ouagadougou Visual Art Festivals.

 CasziB has gathered a wealth of knowledge, insights and inspirations for his art. Indeed, his creativity and prolific imagination feed on his constant exposure to different people, cultures, struggles, arts and intellectual concepts encountered throughout his nomadic life. His painting is universal, always in motion, and deeply embedded in contemporaneity. Via colorful tones and rhythms and faces composed of shadows, blurs and contrasts, CasziB expresses his vision of life in African capitals such as Abidjan, Dakar and Casablanca. His portraits make the everyday straddling of all kinds of cultural, physical, class and gender divides visible. His subjects defy reduction.