Cheri Samba was born 1956 in Kinto M’Vuila, Democratic Republic - TopicsExpress



          

Cheri Samba was born 1956 in Kinto M’Vuila, Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1972 he left school in order to apprentice himself to the sign painters on Kasa Vubu Avenue in Kinshasa; from this circle of artists (which included Moke, Bodo, and later Samba’s younger brother Cheik Ledy among others) arose one of the most vibrant schools of popular painting in the twentieth century. From the late 1980s on, he himself became the main subject of his paintings. For Cheri Samba, this is not an act of narcissism; rather, like an anchor on TV news broadcasts, he places himself in his work to report on what it means to be a successful African artist on the world stage.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:35:08 +0000

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