Emmanuel Kavi Or Komlan Kavi (3 Mars 1970, Lome Togo) is a contemporary artist, painter And visual artist African

To name your style, fusion between styles figurative And abstract, he uses the term “frouism”.

Painter self-taught, Emmanuel Kavi begins with drawing and illustrations. In 1987 – he is 17 years old – he is the winner of the national drawing competition of Togo.

Gradually, his pictorial style evolves towards abstraction. In 2001, he began to exhibit, first in West Africa then in Europe, where his style is sometimes described as "African Cubism".

From 2006, his style further evolves towards a fusion between abstract and realism. To name it, he begins to talk about vagueness. At the same time, he set up his workshop in Ouagadougou, which he considers to be “the crossroads of African Art”.

From 2008, he made several trips to France, where he exhibited and performed with the inhabitants, in various places of culture and care.

Emmanuel Kavi has painted numerous paintings, most of which are part of private collections.

He works without sketching, using natural materials from African soil: pigments, henna, sand, straw, gravel. He places the colors one after the other and, as he goes along, he mixes and interweaves the tools (brushes, knives, fingers) and uses his favorite techniques (scraping, gluing, water jet, etc.). .), his canvas takes on relief, speaks out.

Daily life, human relationships, nature, spirituality, children are among his favorite themes.

He sometimes introduces tribal symbols and signs into his works, notably Dogon country of Mali.

By their construction, their relief and their particular treatment, Emmanuel Kavi's paintings present different aspects, revealing new subjects depending on the luminosity and the reading angle. To qualify this phenomenon of progressive revelation, he uses the term flouism.

Numerous exhibitions in France, Africa and internationally