MELTING AGE ARTS UNDER THE AFRICAN SKIES WITH SPEE NZANTE

THIS DOCUMENTARY FILM WAS PRODUCED BY SONNY DONALD TEN FINGES PRODUCTIONS GERMANY IT SOUNDS FUNNY BUT ITS TRUE IT TOOK 5 YEARS TO COMPLETE THIS FILM OF 15 MINUTES ORIGINAL LENTH .THIS FILM IS DEDICATED TO SPEE NZANTE HIS INSPIRATION WILL REMAIN FOR EVER LET YOUR SOUL REST IN PEACE.

S. Nzante Spee
Spee was born in Mbem, Cameroon, in 1953. He died in 2005 Califonia USA.




Born in Mbem, Cameroon, in 1953, S. Nzante Spee went to primary and secondary school at the Baptist Missionary College in Bamenda, Cameroon. In 1971, he left the college and began teaching English at Saint Mary's College in Mbalmayo, Cameroon. As a young man, since it was impossible to earn one's livelihood in Bamenda by painting, Spee decorated facades, bookshops and post offices. In 1976, he went to Nigeria to study fine arts for three years, and continued his studies in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire until 1982. By this point, Spee was recognized as a painter of great talent, with works being sold internationally. In spite of his rising reputation, he decided to return to Cameroon. Moving back to Bamenda, he had multiple expositions and workshops. In 1984, he won the Bastos Prize, awarded in honor of Cameroon's best painting of the year. From 1990 and 1991, he participated in the Festival des Francophonies (Festival of the French-Speaking World) in Limoges, France. Once again returning to Cameroon, Spee finally decided to carry out one of his oldest dreams: to set up an arts center in Bamenda in support of Cameroonian painters trying to make a career out of their art. Before the founding of the Spee Art Center, no one in Cameroon could believe that it is possible to make a living painting.
One of the greatest artist that ever existed in Cameroon. His style, the melting age, constitutes a pictoral world in which everything crumpls, flows falls apart. Like an impression that the world is ending.
The French Cultural Center in Yaoundé has facilitated Spee's work by providing him with real canvases, and the entire gamut of brushes and paints.
Some of Spee's earlier expositions

1989: Spee represented his province during a competition set by the Ministry of Health, aim was to sensitize the population to AIDS.

1990: 7th Limoges International Festival of Francophonie (7ème Festival International des Francophonies de Limoges); Centre Jean Gagnant.

1991: Saint-Jean de Ruelle, France.

1992: Competition on the theme "To welcome the stranger".

1993: Expositions between Bordeaux, France and Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Artists are not very appreciated in society. We are neglected and even if people do talk about festivals, once they are over the same life starts up all over again
Since it is impossible to earn one's livehood in Bamenda by painting. Spee decorades facades, bookshops and post offices. He also makes handcrafted advertising posters and plays guitar in a reggae Band

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