Diseye Tantua is an artist from Nigeria. Graduated from the school of fine arts and applied arts, he is recognized as one of the most promising artists from the African culture and able to convey the profound changes facing the sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Nigeria. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with 150 million inhabitants. Economic reforms, the renovation of the banking sector and the new stability in the Gulf of Niger to the exploitation of large oil field give hope a 2-digit growth of the economy for years to com. A middle class appears to promote the outbreak of the art market which diseye Tantua is one of the 500 works scattered in many private collections in Nigeria and Europe. This, in prestigious galleries in Nigeria and Ghana, he is considered a leading contemporary african artist. His paintings reflect timeliness, movement and change facing Africa today ... figurative painter, he moved from a realistic art full of color to what he calls the 'Pop Art' in Africa. ("The Art of Diseye Tantua" from 8 February to 27 March 2012)