"Bonaparte élegance", Vanitas project, 2014 ·  Sambu Dinzenza, Yves (*1980), Kinshasa, D.R. Kongo · ID: 3046336

Description

aluminium print,
In Sambu’s “Vanitas” project (2010-2017) the pictures of the Sapeurs posing in various cemeteries immerses us in a utopian universe of being and appearing, a universe where narcissism (the extreme love of self) and the respect of the other (being alive or dead) coincide.

“Vanitas” shows us the spiritual and human dimension of the “La Sape” movement, where collectivism and individualism merge, and where the very meanings of tradition and memory are readdressed in poignant terms.

The object “Bonaparte élegance”, Vanitas project, 2014 with the object ID 3046336 was last part of the auction 93rd Tribal Art Auction at November 16, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 73.

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Comparing literature

https://www.ngola-biennial.org/Participants/Yves-Sambu https://www.vice.com/de/article/9bmzaz/die-eitelkeit-von-kinshasas-sapeuren-yves-sambu-161

Exhibition

"African Odyssey", Le Brass, Brussels, Belgium, Curator Louis Vuitton Fondation & M. A. Yensi, 2015; "Vanité Apparente", Afropean Mimicry-mockery, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany, 2015