Apollinaire GBETEGLO is a Franco-Togolese artist based in Marseille since 2007.

He develops an art, painting and sculpture, imprinted with his African roots, the culture and cults of the Vodoun religion.

His practice includes the use of natural materials such as wood, rope, ocher and earth but also, acrylic, pencil or felt. It brings out an art both rooted in ancient traditions and anchored in a bubbling and mixed present.

Apollinaire's work is both joyful and profound, playful and full of gravity. His pieces are a medium between the viewer and humanity, a link between humans and nature.

Apollinaire is finally a complete artist, plastic artist, poet and dancer, but it is especially a man in the full sense of the term, a free man, a man linked to the other, a man linked to the others.

Breath

Oh breath

Breathe your suffering

Breath without suffering

Breath without trembling

Breath without moaning

It is evidence of a desire

It is a manifestation

It is also the energy that keeps you going

It's the sound that comes from inside

Blow to free your heart

Blow to air your head

Breath for the escape of your mind

It makes you reborn from your ashes

It's the nameless wind that carries you away

Look, a seed is growing, blowing.

Apollinaire Koffi