2023-12-26 03:20:35
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The Parisian museum exhibits around fifty works by the Congolese painter whose vibrant palette serves as a framework for his reflections on the history of his region and the place of African artists in the West.
The retrospective devoted by the Maillol museum to Chéri Samba is an opportunity to affirm the role of scout of the Congolese artist who was one of the first Africans to be recognized during his lifetime in Europe, at the dawn of the years 90, but also to retrace in detail the stages of this ascent strewn with pitfalls and carried out by amateurs who believed in him and his painting. Starting with Jean Pigozzi, collector of contemporary African art (to whom belong the fifty works shown here), as well as André Magnin, another traveling companion, without forgetting Jean-Hubert Martin, curator of “Magiciens de la terre », exhibition in 1989 at the Pompidou Center which, first, lifted the lid under which the teeming African scene was bubbling.
On the canvas
Born in 1956, Samba left school at 16, and trained on the job, reading comic strips, published in the magazine Jeunes pour Jeunes, before becoming a sign painter and designer. . In 1975, he took the plunge and opened his workshop in Kinshasa. No one can miss the place, whose facade is decorated with his words in capital letters: “Atelier du Gd Maître de la Peinture populaire”. This emphasis, this pride, this joyful cheekiness are part of the work and the character. Chéri Samba willingly puts herself on stage in her paintings. Smoked glasses on the ne
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