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The afro-Brazilian painter Wilson Tiberio was born on November 24th, 1920 in Porto-Alègre in Brazil.
It is in the South of France, in the Vaucluse that he left us and departed from this life on July 20th, 2005.

He began his artistic training as a painter and sculptor in Rio. He was to continue to develop his talent in Bahia and Sao Paulo. In 1947, following an exhibition in Rio, the French Embassy awarded him a grant for 1947/48 to complete and perfect his mastery of mural technique.

France proved  to be a springboard for his discovery of Africa which was central for him and  which lay at the heart of his work.

Through paintings, drawings and sculptures, he restored to Africa, its violated beauty, which had been distorted and disfigured by the colonial image.

The struggles of the continent  fighting against racism and  continuous and repeated oppression ceaselessly reverberate in echo with those of other continents, Latin America in particular