Art Of The Day Weekly
#396 - from 9 July 2015 to 9 September 2015
JP Mika, Kiese na Kiese, 2014, Pas-Chaudoir Collection, Belgium © JP Mika.
All the colors of Congo
PARIS – Deep Africa remains as disquieting as it did one century ago. Its metropolis – true creative lungs –are badly known, aside from some short lived flashes like the movie Benda Bilili! five years ago. Consequently this exhibition that traces nearly one century of figurative art in the Republic of Congo (former Zaire) is a true discovery. Can we conceive that painting on paper began only in the 1920s? The country has made giant strides and its artists, contrary to ours (more attracted by conceptual art) are true commentators of contemporary events, like Chéri Samba.
• Beauté Congo 1926-2015 at the Fondation Cartier, from 11 July to 15 November 2015.