ideias de rua: EVANS MBUGUA - PINTURA

28 de abril de 2017

EVANS MBUGUA - PINTURA - NAIROBI KENYA

Evans Mbugua is an up-and-coming artist-designer born in 1979, in Nairobi, Kenya. By 1999 he moved to France to continue his art studies. After graduating from Toulouse University, he attended the École Supérieure d'art des Pyrénées to study Graphic Design, graduating in 2005 having majored in Print Design. Following this he worked as an Artistic Director for advertising companies in Toulouse, but he continued to experiment with his art in his private home studio. Moving to Paris in 2011, he was finally able to dedicate time to explore his artistic practice and returned to producing print designs.

A self-confessed millennial, Mbugua’s bold use of colour and dot metaphors on his prints convey “a way of using art as a link to communicate and to unite people.” His prints overlap a narrative through the use of bright, energetic backgrounds and playful subjects. His focus on urban signs and pictograms transmits his quest to create a universal link through contemporary art.

His works are held in private collections in France, the United States and Kenya and he has featured in exhibitions in Paris.