Travelling exhibition: Germany, UK, France, Tokyo.
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It explains how Samba believes that experience and process of sustaining and recreating a common identity across the African diaspora will show how to strengthen a community. In his piece, J'aime la couleur piece goes into race and self identity". Samba says, “I appeal to people’s consciences…I paint reality even if it’s shocking, I put humor and color into it to attract people. Samba's pieces aims to emphasize poverty, stupidity about his culture, corruption, and chaos in his work. Art in the Present Tense", and described by The Huffington Post as "certainly 'the exhibition' of this new Century". In 2007, curator Robert Storr invited Samba to participate in the 52nd International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, entitled "Think with the Senses-Feel with the Mind. Samba's breakthrough was the exhibition Les Magiciens de la Terre at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1989, which made him known internationally.
According to the film's director, Mwezé Ngangura, Samba was instrumental in the making of the film, convincing the French Ministry of Co-operation, France 2 and Congolese television that Ngangura could make a film on Kinshasa. He is the central figure in the 1982 documentary film Kin Kiesse, offering his thoughts on life in Kinshasa. The exhibition was part of the program of the first festival Horizonte - Festival der Weltkulturen. In 1979 Samba participated in the exhibition Moderne Kunst aus Afrika, organized in West Berlin. He borrowed the use of "word bubbles" from comic-strip art, which allowed him to add not only narrative but also commentary to his compositions, thus giving him his signature style of combining painting with text. Working both as a billboard painter and a comic-strip artist, he used the styles of both genres when he began making his paintings on sacking cloth. At the same time he also became an illustrator for the entertainment magazine Bilenge Info. This group of artists, including Samba's younger brother Cheik Ledy, came to constitute one of the country's most vibrant schools of popular painting. In 1972, at the age of 16 Samba left the village to find work as a sign painter in the capital of Kinshasa, where he encountered such artists as Moké and Bodo. His father was a blacksmith and his mother a farmer.
BiographyĬhéri Samba was born in Kinto M’Vuila, Democratic Republic of Congo, as the elder son of a family of 10 children. Cherí Samba's religion is Catholic with a Zairian twist, which influenced many of his paintings like Cherí Samba Beseeches the Cosmos.
While in school, Samba was always drawing and remembered that his father did not like seeing him draw. Samba maintained second in class, except for one year where he was first. After graduating from primary Catholic school, Samba went to high school. He doesn't reject or deny Christianity, which is the religion he grew up on, but he says he tries to resist any attempt to affix a confession label to his religion. Samba claims that he was turned into a Catholic, while he attended school. Samba's parents were associated with the Kongo culture, but Samba chooses to identify himself with the Kinshasa culture, which is the capital of his country.
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