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Congolese artist
Freddy Tsimba (born 1967) is a sculptor and visual artist from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has made sculptures from bullet casings collected on Congolese war battlefields.[1] One of his artwork entitled Au-delà de l'espoir (Beyond the hope) was commissioned by the municipality of Ixelles in Brussels and installed on the corner of Chaussée de Wavre and Longue-Vie street in Matonge district.[2]
Biography
Tsimba was born in Kinshasa in 1967. He studied at the Fine Art School in Kinshasa where he got a degree on sculpture in 1989.[3] He received the silver medal at the Ottawa Jeux de la Francophonie in 2001.[4]
