Atelier de l'artiste (2013).Les triptyques Artventure de Etienne Delacroix et Joël Mpah Dooh réalisés en 1992. Ces panneaux triptyques de plexiglas sont les premières œuvres d’art public offertes par l’association doual’art à la ville en 1993 produits avec les soutiens du Centre culturel français de Douala et de Graphics System. Ils sont le résultat d’un atelier de création plastique assistée par ordinateur.
Joël Claude Mpah Dooh is a graduate of the Conservatoire Municipal des Beaux-Arts of Amiens (France).
His first works on canvas offer filiform characters in postures expressing pain and seeking deliverance. His later works became very urban writings, similar to graffiti. His experiments led him to work in three dimensions, volume representing the characters of his first paintings, interpreting the poverty of amorphous people left to themselves. He works with other materials such as aluminum foil, which he paints and scratches, or Plexiglas sheets, also scratched up, which with light creates games of shadows.
In terms of public art, he is the author of one of the four works outside of the series Art’venture, offered by doual’art to the city of Douala in 1992. During this workshop with computer-aided graphic design, he met the “dean” of Cameroonian artists Koko Komégné, whom he befriended and cofounded the collective Kheops Club in 1994. Joel Mpah Dooh was also one of the artists invited to Scénographies Urbaines de Douala in 2002. He has participated in several collective and individual exhibitions, which brought him to Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal, the United States, Cuba, Lebanon and France. In 2007, he was invited by the Fondation Blachère à Apt (France) to inaugurate the residency series Art et entreprise.[2]
^Joël Mpah Dooh: éclipse : exposition du 1er mars au 20 mai, 2007, Fondation Jean-Paul Blachère, Fondation Jean-Paul Blachère, 2007, 15 p. (catalogue d'exposition)
Africa 24. LE MAG - Joël MPAH DOOH – Cameroun. [2]
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Pensa, Iolanda (Ed.) 2017. Public Art in Africa. Art et transformations urbaines à Douala /// Art and Urban Transformations in Douala. Genève: Metis Presses. ISBN978-2-94-0563-16-6