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Oil on canvas by Mwenze Kibwanga (1925-1999), a Congolese painter (formerly Belgian Congo, now Democratic Republic of the Congo).
Dimensions 94.5 x 76.0 cm.
Signed Mwenze Kibwanga bottom right and dated (19)62.
Pierre-Romain Desfossés, painter and former Breton officer of the French navy, passionate about African art and fascinated by the talents of local Congolese artists, decided to open his studio doors in 1946 in Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi). The Hangar, or Academy of Indigenous Popular Art as this place was later officially named , admitted Mwenze Kibwanga in 1950. This academy has allowed to affirm a painting influenced by the traditions and spontaneity of primitive arts in rupture with traditional western aesthetic canons. The human figure is omnipresent in his scenes of daily life: hunting, fishing, work, dance. Mwenze Kibwanga does not seek perspective effects or academic standards: he paints in an essentially decorative spirit. If Mwenze Kibwanga painted with his thumb until 1952, his style is then characterized by a technique derived from divisionism, based on hatches made of thick brush strokes, alternating warm and cold tones (ocher and beige, brown and black, green and black). His technique is made of small bars adopting the shape of objects. These stripes echo the twists of his father’s weaving trade.
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