Pascal Konan was born in 1979 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Abidjan where he now teaches painting while practicing his artistic activity.
His whole approach lies both in the exaltation of an happy childhood spent in one of the suburbs of Abidjan but also in the testimony of the precariousness of an Africa grappling with urbanity. He explores the streets of Ivory Coast in search of collective life, of the spirit, which handles the game between what is open to the eye and what is hidden below.
Pascal Konan’s works highlight individuals emphasizing the role that each one of us plays within our environment. He is working on giving a new life to objects strewn on the Ivorian streets and more generally in West Africa.
On his artwork colors are juxtaposed with muted tones, light with shade, definite contours with blurred ones. Konan experiments with different techniques using acrylic paint and recycled electronic waste material..
Pascal Konan has won several prizes over the years like the UEMOA prize at the 10th biennale of DAK’ART in 2012 and he also won the prize Christian Lattier in 2014. In 2017 is dedicated to him an individual exhibition at the Rotonde des Arts Contemporains Abidjan in 2017.