Overview

Organized in partnership with African Art Beats, Washington, DC, this is the first solo museum exhibition of Ivorian artist Ange Martial Méné (b. 1977, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire) in the US. Known simply as Méné, the artist brings a deeply personal and spiritually resonant body of acrylic paintings to Washington, DC—works that bridge prehistoric rock art with a luminous, modern visual language.

Méné’s paintings are improvisational, intuitive, and symbolic. Drawing on natural textures, subconscious imagery, and ancestral memory, his compositions invite viewers into meditative landscapes filled with hybrid figures, celestial echoes, and sacred traces. They are born not of premeditated design but of dream, emotion, and reflection in what the artist calls “a deep work of the spirit.”

At once earthy and ethereal, these works reflect Méné’s reverence for nature, cultural origins, and the unseen energies that bind living beings across time and space. Though rooted in ancient tradition, his art speaks urgently to our present moment, offering a vision of harmony, healing, and inner peace in a time of global disconnection.

Méné’s work is held in prominent collections around the world and has been exhibited in Paris, Dakar, Barcelona, and beyond. His work offers viewers more than an image; it offers an experience.