Touré Mederic was born in West Africa, Ivory Coast, his passion for art started
as a child since the age of 4 with drawing and imitating cartoons and big
painters such as Pablo Picasso or Basquiat or Salvador Dali’s paintings. His
father was a military and went for a mission to the U.S.A “Washington DC in
1984 and Mederic grew up in this country with all the influences of the United
States threw music and art until the age of 17, and came back in is country. But
Mederic needed to study his roots and culture and started working on African
art, in a professional art school in Ivory Coast “Musée COMB” C.T.A. at the age
of 20 Mederic started wining numerous art prizes and degrees with embassies
and companies. His first exhibitions happened in a luxury hotel called Hotel
Sofitel in Abidjan and stared working on a lot more exhibitions threw years. He
created a painting style that he calls “SCULPAINTING” whish he says “it’s a style
that combines painting and sculpture at the same time. His painting subjects or
different, from African mask to women curves or African ceremonies in the
villages, his has a different type of inspirations in his work. Right now Touré
Mederic has numerous pieces of artwork and sculptures to present in an
international exhibition, like he said “I am the next Jean Michel Basquiat.”