Victor Fotso Nyie’s training in sculpture, gained in the context of Italian artisan knowledge, marked his initiation into a practice expressed in the mother tongue of the artistic tradition of the African continent, renewing its canons and poised between realism and symbolism. With the aim of giving visibility and formal dignity to the impoverished and the enslaved, his sculptures shape a complex and metaphorical iconography drawing on archaic idols and tribal attributes and sometimes using gold to embellish and restore its African heritage to his homeland.
