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Klémagha Toussaint Dembélé

Born in 1982 in Koutiala, Mali. He lives and works in Mali.


Klémagha Toussaint Dembélé a.k.a Klèmèguè is a Malian visual artist.
He studied the plastic arts at the National Institute of Arts and the Conservatory of Multimedia Arts and Crafts Balla Fasséké Kouyaté of Bamako (Mali). His works were exhibited in 2008 at the Rencontres Internationales des Médias Numériques (DRIMN), in Valenciennes (France).
In 2010, he is exhibited in Bamako where he participated in the creation workshop of the CCF organized by the Fresnoy. He is currently a member of Atelier Badialan 1 (AB1).
Klémagha Toussaint Dembélé deploys a multidisciplinary world to tell the exceptional but also the harshness of everyday life in monochrome paintings that sprinkled with points of color (Cotidien series). In other works, delicately violent, he shows the balance of differences (Difference series).
From a painful minimalism, the Imigration series composed of plates and barbed wire echoes the human losses and reminds the responsibility of the states that erect barriers.