Luanda - Angolan artist Nelson Paim will exhibit thirty works of caricatures on Wednesday in Luanda, in an exhibition called 'Odyssey'.
Speaking to ANGOP about the exhibition, taking place at the Art and Culture Foundation, the artist said that the event aims to celebrate his 15-year career.
Nelson Paim said that the sample highlights the relevance of freedom of artistic expression, fundamentally for the growth of caricature in the contemporary Angolan scene.
The artist took the opportunity to deplore the current situation of the Angolan caricature market, as it is frightening due to the growing number of criticisms.
He was born in the municipality of Dande, in the province of Bengo, on August 10, 1990.
Due to the influence of his cousin Abreu Paim, he started drawing at the age of seven, at a time when he lived in Luanda.
In 2009, he met Brazilian artist Sérgio Guerra and he showed his best pencil drawings.
The artist participated for the first time in the “Luanda Cartoon” International Comics and Animation Festival in 2010, at the invitation of the creative artists Olímpio Sousa and Lindomar de Sousa.
In 2014, Nelson Paim launched a book of caricatures, becoming the first to do so in Angola.
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