Jean Claude Kako
PARTICIPATING ARTIST
Jean Claude Kako
Kako was born in 1963 in Montvert les Hauts, in Reunion Island. Lover of nature and close to the earth, he is fascinated by trees. On his first canvas, trees are imposing, trunks are denuded, behind which scenes of life appear. Hide and seek or distancing, the trees stands between the viewers and snapshots of daily life or scenes inspired by mythology as in the blue series of 2006. His work is enriched with his meeting with the American artist Hugues Weiss, whose dreamlike painting proposes imaginary travel in the real world of dream and the nightmare. By inserting the tree with acrylic paint on prints photo of urban landscape, scenes of life in public spaces, it highlights the contradiction of image memory and time. The tree is born, lives and persists, immobile character, stressing the schizophrenia of our modern lives. In 2009, he meets Herve Di Rosa, one of the main artisan of the ‘’Figuration libre’’ with whom he establishes friendly relationships. His very colourful graphic universe seduced him, and the meetings that followed, influenced him. The focal point of his creation, the Tree is today at the heart of "Le tour des origines d’un nouveau monde".