*Born on November 13, 1989, he lives and works between Lomé and Dakar.
A painter whose work has been exhibited worldwide, Daté Kodjo Amouzou develops a pictorial practice where color becomes language, force, and vibration. His free and bold use of pigments reflects the power of his works, as well as the magic and transcendental spirit that inhabits them.
Amouzou primarily paints his emotions and feelings, in a process that is both expressive and therapeutic. His creation draws on the pulsations of being, inner resonances, and immanence, which he explores with intensity. Between poetry and painting, between silence and music, each work emerges like a score, a visual poem he composes. For him, “art is the spirit made real.”
His artistic gesture, rooted in a poetically spiritual quest, oscillates between an affirmation of creative force and a search for an afro-optimistic, sustainable togetherness. Drawing from tachism and abstract expressionism, he exerts on matter a physical, psychic, and spiritual tension that makes his painting profoundly communicative.
His works, created using mixed media (collage, acrylic, oil), stand out for their intensity, poetry, and ability to connect the intimate with the universal.*
