Vitshois Bondo :My New World

South Africa Wed 04-05-2011

Vitshois Bondo :My New World
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A prominent figure among the young painters from Congo, Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo was born in 1981. He defines his work as a combination of painting, sculpture, photography, and installation. His reflection on the body is at the same time a reflection on society and politics. Since we are not able to change the course of politics, we need to learn to change the way in which we look at the body. Hence the fluid fluorescence and the warm shades of his paintings, which put forward suggestion: if painting as an artistic mean is not dead, so is not the man. Through the repositioning of the human figure at the core of paintings, the artist portrays his belly full of objects of consumerisms. If the man is an image of this belly, then he is not anymore what he used to be. And if conflicts burst so frequently it is because everyone gave up on the responsibility of being a pensive being. In order to underline this point, Vitshois portrays each protagonist of the conflict, placing his head at his feet.

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