Trained as an architect, Jean Loup Pivin is the founder of the publishing house Revue Noire in 1991 and of the magazine of the same name on contemporary expressions of Africa and the African diaspora. While continuing the activities of the design office BICFL whose last major achievement is the Memorial ACTe in 2015 in Pointe-à-Pitre. Scenographer, exhibition curator, he created in 1986 BICFL, a cultural engineering office, whose last major achievement is the ACTe Memorial in Pointe-à-Pitre in 2015.