Multidisciplinary artist (painter, photographer and writer), a graduate of the National School of Fine Arts in Abidjan, Jacobleu has always been an artist campaigning for noble values: peace, freedom, social cohesion and the promotion of its cultural heritage. For more than twenty years, he has regularly participated in international exhibitions and professional meetings in America, Europe and Africa.
Jacobleu is of Dan tradition, people originating from the mountainous West of the Ivory Coast. This region is known for its organization around the mask. Indeed Jacobleu draws his inspiration from this traditional institution that is the Dan mask. He reinterprets this "raw material" through an artistic approach of contemporary expression. It should be noted that there is, in his artistic proposals, a lot of research combining photography, drawing, painting, pastel, etc.
After tackling themes linked to “Migration” and “Peace” in recent years, his recent productions are shaping life in society through a dialectic of the “man-mask” relationship. He thinks that man, after all, is also a mask for his fellow man. Because he shows what he would like society to see. Here, "man is not a wolf for man", but rather "a mask" for his neighbor. In short, we all live in "hidden realities". So my exhibition project will include paintings.