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Discreet but present through an eclectic work Mario Epanya is an artist who freezes in time
luminous moments. In December 2012 Flashmag met with Mario for the first time, as part of his Glamazonia exhibition at the August Wilson Center in Pittsburg. It was a real treat for aesthetes, and aficionados of the beauty of the black woman. Glamazonia made exclusively of photo in black and white made the showcase of the museums from the 4 corners of the world. Five years later Mario is back with a work that will surely mark its time. Beautiful as the name suggests is an ode to the black beauty. Beautiful presents an unpublished portrait collection of black women from the most famous to the most ordinary. In the lines that follow Mario tells us a bit more about his new production.
Flashmag: Hello Mario we are glad to meet you once again. Glamazonia was a feast in showcase, and Beautiful, seems to announce itself as a treat on glossy paper, at the pace where things are going it will not hurt to call you Super Mario, since your work seems every time to sublimate the physical imprint of the so-called black woman. Why this “obsession”
between quotes, to present the black woman on her finest attires?
Mario: Thank you Flashmag for these encouragements. You know the sublime black woman is something very natural to me because I grew up surrounded by exceptionally beautiful women, Elegant and combative, besides this work is dedicated to My Grandmother Monique Moussinga Makaki.
When you disembark in Paris in 2000, with a self-taught hairdresser and make-up artist's background, do you have any idea that you would end up a photographer? Because it is a euphemism to say that you are one of the best camera in Paris. How this conversion took place?
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Mario Epanya: Giving Black Women the Beauty they Deserve