Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga (B. 1991)
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Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga (B. 1991)

Untitled

细节
Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga (B. 1991)
Untitled
signed, inscribed and dated 'EDDY KAMUANGA ILUNGA 2014 KINSHASA' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
47¼ x 39 3/8in. (120 x 100cm.)
Painted in 2014
来源
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 2014.
展览
London, Saatchi Gallery, Pangaea II: New Art from Africa and Latin America, 2015, p. 100 (illustrated in colour, pp. 100-101).
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拍品专文

Through Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga's paintings we are introduced to the cultural diversity of contemporary Kinshasa – capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Africa’s third largest metropolis – transformed through an imaginary space of symbols and abstracted form. In Sans titre, a cropped image of a glamorous woman emphasises her heels, handbag and vibrant patterned skirt. The skirt’s orange and black design escapes as abstract squares into a background textured with mysterious scriptural marks. Ilunga’s works mediate the mass influence of globalisation on African identity, emphasising the continent’s intrinsic plurality and hybrid cosmopolitanism. A mixture of ancient and modern writings – a kind of visual Esperanto inspired by the communicative strategies of modern advertising – forms the backdrop for his fashionable subjects. Population-sweeping civil wars, and even the atrocities of the present day, are a world away from Ilunga’s brightly-hued images of a utopian society. Included in the 2014 Saatchi exhibition ‘Pangaea: New art from Africa and Latin America’, his works speak of a young culture enraptured by commercialist life, grappling with the new joys and anxieties born of African urbanism.

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