Centenary of the birth of Frantz Fanon 1925–2025
The exhibition is centered on two portraits of Frantz Fanon by Mustapha Boutadjine and a charcoal drawing of Fanon by Ernest Pignon-Ernest, guest of honour.
I don’t know whether it was Frantz Fanon or the Algerian man in the street who first said during the Revolution:
‘Colonialism is not a thinking machine, it is not a body endowed with reason. It is violence in its natural state and can only bow down to greater violence.’
After this observation, Frantz Fanon and I decided to continue the struggle, he with his writings and actions, which are to be rediscovered, and I with my images, which are to be visited and revisited.
I made two large portraits of him; the first was acquired by my friend and brother the musician Rachid Taha, another rebel who left us too soon.
Frantz Fanon’s commitment to Algeria and Africa is an eternal debt for me, for Algerians and for all colonised and neo-colonised peoples.
Hasta la victoria siempre!
By Mustapha Boutadjine
Exhibition from 22 July to 6 September 2025
ARTBRIBUS art gallery, 68, rue Brillat-Savarin, 75013 Paris
artbribus@orange.fr
Tuesday to Saturday, 4pm to 8pm.
(Advance booking recommended: 01 53 80 13 75)