Hervé Yamguen

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Hervé Yanguen during a performance, Douala, 2010
Born	(1971-06-17)June 17, 1971 Douala Cameroon
Nationality	Cameroonian
Education	Ecole Superiore des Arts Decoratifs in Strasburg
Known for	Painting, Sculpture
Notable work	Le temps de la saison verte (1998),

Herve Yamguen (born 1971 in Douala) is a Cameroonian painter and sculptor. Autodidact, he launched himself in painting, sculpture and he discovered a passion for the writing which enables him to wonder about its daily live. He currently works on plays.

He grew in Douala where he lives and works in one of the most popular districts of the city, New Bell. It is this environment which nourishes the imaginary of Hervé whose plastic work turns around the face, the body and the place of it in the world.

Works

Hervé Yamguen is one of the members of the Cercle Kapsiki.^[1] As a member of the cercle, it took part in Scénographies Urbaines, (Urban Scenographies)^[2] in January 2003, a project born from the meeting of Cameroonian artists. The idea consists of a residence of artists from all over the world located in the popular district of New Bellin Douala: the project aimed at leading artists to express themselves and exchange with the inhabitants of the district of Douala whose reputation was not the best. The stereotypes had to be broken to create new words. The communication had to be reinvented. It is during the workshop in the district New Bell that the Kapsiki circle (Hervé Youmbi, Hervé Yamguen, Blaise Bang, Salifou Lindou, Jules Wokam) and the collective Skurk (J-C Lanquetin, François Duconseille) invited other artists from Cameroon, France, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Lebanon, to share with the district’s population details of their lives.

He exposed in 2003 a work at the Mam gallery within the framework of the project Pièce Unique, initiated by the French Cultural centre of Douala. He also published a long poem Le temps de la saison verte (The time of the green season), in 1998. A new book is published by the French Cultural centre of Douala.

Néons d’Amour, 2007
Les mots écrits de New-Bell, 2010

Publications

Le Temps de la saison verte, poetry, Les Solitaires intempestifs, 1998
La Nuit cristalline, livre objet, 12 copies, poetry, 2000
Entre brune et cratère, livre objet, 10 copies with sérigraphies, poetry, 2000
Le déluge en soi n'est jamais trop loin, poetry, drawings, CCF Blaise Cendrars, Cameroon, March 2005
Sous les airs du Wouri, Pas de quartier- Brigade d'intervention poétique, édition du CCF Blaise Cendrars, 2006
Respiration in "Interdit de laver sa mobylette", poetry, collaborative work, illustrations by Hervé Yamguen, éditions Opoto, 2007

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