Sélection Kourtrajmé
RAKAJOO, Sans titreYear 2020
Medium Print on Arches paper
Dimensions 27 x 38 cm
Edition 5
"Unknown hero
today rests
steel armour
lying by the rose
of the earth you have made
your most beautiful mausoleum
your battered wheels and your scrap body
were able to guide us
on the battlefield
making your life
the most beautiful of tales.
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Born in Saint-Denis in 1986 into a family with Senegalese origins, Rakajoo moved to La Goutte d´Or as a child.
Around the age of 15 he discovered museums, such as the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay, on his own and developed a passion for painting. His compositions offered him a place of refuge and allowed him to tell stories drawn from the world around him. Rejected from various art schools, he began working in the design departments of animated film production companies.
However, this universe was too rigid for him and he continued his development as an independent artist, his 25m² apartment providing his only studio space. The exhibition of Lucien Freud at the Centre Pompidou became a major reference for his colourful, figurative works, as did the black artists he discovered on the internet such as Kerry James Marshall, Jacob Lawrence and Jérôme Witkin. Norman Rockwell is another surprising inspiration for Rakajoo.
Initially he pursued his dream of being an artist alongside that of professional boxing. In 2017, he quit the sport to concentrate on art, and in 2019 was accepted as the only painter in the first class of the École Kourtajmé. Rakajoo completed a residency at the Blanchère Foundation in Apt in 2011, and it was during this project that he first discovered Château La Coste. Upon returning with the École Kourtrajmé in 2020, he chose to paint the classic, vintage tractor designed by Massey Ferguson as the basis for his limited edition print.
Artists Sélection Kourtrajmé
Name of the work Sans Titre
Year 2020
Medium Print on Arches paper
Edition 5
Dimensions 27 x 38 cm
Signed Yes
Numbered Yes
Certificate of authenticity No
Artwork
“ unknown hero today rests armour of steel lying close to the rose of the earth that you made your most beautiful mausoleum your damaged wheels and your body of iron knew to guide us on the battlefield turning your life into the most beautiful story ”