Rissa Ixa

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Rissa Ixa (* 1946 in Inatès ; also Ghissa Ixa , Rhissa Ixa , Rissa Ikssa ) is a Nigerian painter .

Life

Rissa Ixa belongs to the Tuareg ethnic group and comes from the border region with Mali in northwestern Niger. He is a nephew of the tourist and paramilitary Mano Dayak and an uncle of the guitarist and singer Bombino .

Ixa showed artistic talent in his childhood and wanted to be a painter. In 1959 he moved to the capital Niamey . By observing other artists, he learned different painting techniques. He had his international breakthrough with a painting of market life in Ayérou , with which he won second place in a competition organized by the American magazine African Arts . The first exhibitions in Europe and the United States followed in the 1970s . Rissa Ixa was soon one of the most famous painters from Niger , along with Boubacar Boureima . He perfected his technique in 1998 at a course given by the Ivorian painter Augustin Kassi at the Center Culturel Franco-Nigérien in Niamey.

Rissa Ixa trained other artists in his studio in Niamey and gave painting courses in Montpellier and Nancy . He was also active as a flute player and founded the Association pour le développement des arts et cultures traditionnelles nomades du Niger , an association for the development of traditional nomadic art and culture in Niger.

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Rissa Ixa is considered a representative of naive painting . He tended increasingly towards abstraction . His preferred technique is reverse glass painting . His motifs relate to the everyday life and culture of the Tuareg. They show influences from jewelry, leather and woodwork of the ethnic group. Ixa also experimented with integrating the Tifinagh script into his paintings. When processing traditional motifs, he tended to appeal to a western taste.

Fonts

  • Le marché d'Ayorou . In: African Arts . Vol. 2, No. 2 , 1969, p. 33 .
  • Images de l'art et de la culture touareg . With a foreword by Mano Dayak. Tagazt, Niamey 1991.

documentary

  • Aman Iman (France 1996, 17 min), directors: Cassie Texier, Sandra Vautier

literature

  • Ramada Elghamis: Le tifinagh au Niger contemporain. Etude sur l'écriture indigène des Touaregs . Dissertation. Leiden University, Leiden 2011, chap. 6.2.3 Le neo -tifinagh de Rhissa Ixa , p. 325-330 .
  • Naïma Louali: Les voyelles touarègues et l'alphabet tifinagh: évaluation de quelques propositions récentes . In: Pholia . No. 8 , 1993, pp. 121-139 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rhissa Ixa. Fortuna Gallery, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Ruddy Aboab: Bombino: le son du désert dans Plus Près De Toi. In: Nova. May 17, 2018, accessed October 20, 2019 (French).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Audrey Boucksom: Arts "touristiques" en Afrique et consommateurs occidentaux. Le cas de l'artisanat d'art au Niger . Thèse de doctorat. Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 2009, p. 161 ( tel.archives-ouvertes.fr [PDF; accessed October 20, 2019]).
  4. ↑ a b c d M. S. Abandé Moctar: Exposition des oeuvres du peintre Rhissa Ixa au CCFN / JR. In: Niger Diaspora. September 13, 2007, accessed October 20, 2019 (French).
  5. ^ Alison Behnke: Niger in Pictures . Twenty-First Century Books, Minneapolis 2008, ISBN 0-8225-7147-1 , pp. 53 .
  6. ^ Jonathan M. Bloom, Sheila S. Blair: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture . Volume III. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York City 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-530991-1 , pp. 348 .
  7. ↑ Aman Iman. Ardèche Images, accessed October 20, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Ixa, Rissa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ixa, Ghissa; Ixa, Rhissa; Ikssa, Rissa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Inatès