"Kitendi en coukeur", Vanitas project, 2010 ·  Sambu Dinzenza, Yves (*1980), Kinshasa, D.R. Congo · ID: 3046335

Description

aluminium print,
Yves Sambu’s work is based on the evolution of man and the social integration of men and women in the city. He addresses cohabitation issues which demand respect for one another despite differences in point of view, conviction, and way of being.

He is also inspired by the “La Sape” movement in Congo: colourfully and luxuriously dressed men that roam the streets of Kinshasa. Sapeurism can be traced all the way back to the colonial period in Brazzaville and Kinshasa when house slaves were given clothing instead of money as compensation for their work.

The object “Kitendi en coukeur”, Vanitas project, 2010 with the object ID 3046335 was last part of the auction 93rd Tribal Art Auction at November 16, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 72.

Here you will find more objects and interesting facts about Contemporary art.

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

"Vanité apparent", solo Exhibition, KVS Royal Flemish Theater, Brussels, Belgium, 2011; "Vanité Apparente", Nomad Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2012; "Vanité Apparente", solo Exhibition, 44 Gallery Contemporary of Photography, Bruges, Belgium, 2012; "The surreal Congo", Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte”, Dortmund, Germany, 2012; "African Odyssey", Le Brass, Brussels, Belgium, 2015, Curator: Louis Vuitton Fondation & N. A. Yensi; "Vanité Apparente", Afropean Mimicry-Mockery, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany, 2015