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Fluoman has always work in reggae music movement.
His first fluorescent paintings represented Bob Marley, Family Man, Culture, Lone
Ranger…
He was at their first concerts in France in the early 70s and even created back-drops
for their concerts.
Fluoman met Cedric Myton and the CONGOS through the JAH LIVE label with which he
works. He exhibits paintings that he lights up with fluorescent lights during their concert at
la Mutualité .
Fluoman and Cedric Myton became they even go together to see Bob Marley's concert at
Le Bourget in 1980.
In 2005, when Fluoman died, Elijah (his son) and friends created « Arc en fluo »
association with the aim of paying tribute to the artist. They organized the first tribute
concert to Fluoman in 2006 in Chartres in partnership with the association Onsfoudkilao?
During this concert, the Congos (newly reformed) deliver an anthology show surrounded
by gigantic paintings by Fluoman:
This is the first time for Elijah, Fabien and Fred (from the Arc en fluo association) to meet
Cedric Myton and and talk about Fluoman with him.
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In 2008, the idea of a musical tribute to the painter was born. Like Fluoman who traveled
with his suitcase of paints, members of the Arc en Fluo association travel across France to
meet singers that Fluoman knew so that they can pay tribute to the painter
Naturally, The Congos records the first piece of this beautiful project.
The singers and team members meet in a hotel room after the group's concert in
Montpellier in 2008 to record & quote; Call him Father – Tribute to Fluoman" A piece full of emotion
and spirituality.
FLUOMAN
Fluoman was born in 1952; his early works took their inspirations in the Post-
impressionnist movement- Paul Gauguin, Toulouse Lautrec- or in modern artists, such as
Yves Klein (« for the excessive violence of his works ») or Francis Bacon on his works on
colors and the pictorial space.
In the 70s, Fluoman discovered reggae music and the Rasta movement, and since then
devoted most of his works to them. His uncluttered paintings, tinted with music, are a
historic expression of the international emergence of this movement.
After Bob Marley's death, which triggered the end of the golden age of reggae in France,
Fluoman looked for inspirations in Africa, where he spent his childhood.
His desire to fight against the apartheid, and to emphasize the African culture- a
collaboration with Thomas Sankara, a symbol of the Panafricanism movement- are shown
in his work on Africa.
« As long as the apartheid is not over, I will continue to work on it » (extract from an
interview of Fluoman in August 2005)
In his « African work », Fluoman has two sides: a painter of African landscapes and
everyday life; and a violent lampoonist against every political racial segregations.
In the 90s, Fluoman concentrated on Ethiopia and created a new simple graphic design.
This design is naïve or extremely meticulous, and based upon a personal vision on
Ethiopian Coptic art.
It was the time when he decided to dedicated his life to his art and moved to Marseille in
the 2000s. Marseilles, as a melting pot, is an inspiration for the artist. He made a set of
paintings on Marseilles seashores that every inhabitants would easily know.
Fluoman painted 600 paintings with fluorescent acrylic: each painting reacts to ultraviolet
light which shows invisible contrast to the normal light.
His artistic name comes from this capacity to enlighten his paintings with fluorescent.
This innovative concept to enlighten paintings gives life to them, behind a band on stage or
at an exhibition.
However, this fluorescent technique is quite old: it appeared in China during the 11th
century and was found again by a shoemaker of the 17th century. It is easy and natural to
find these fluorescent pigments and the black light to show them.
« When I see this reaction, immediatly I understand: 1- how to use the fluorescent
colours. 2- With it I can do light shows and 3- I understand that I've got work for all my
life. » (Extract of an interview of Fluoman, August 2005)
Thus, putting ultraviolet lights in front his paintings let the existence of a mass of different
versions for one painting. It is like reggae music in which there are a lot of different
versions of a same instrumental with different singers or arrangements.
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