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In the early 1980s the artist began signing his paintings "Chéri Samba: Artiste Populaire".
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For Samba, this is not an act of narcissism rather, like an anchor on TV news broadcasts, he places himself in his work to report on what it means to be a successful African artist on the world stage. From the late 1980s on, he himself became the main subject of his paintings. This canvases offer a running commentary on popular customs, sexuality, AIDS and other illnesses, social inequalities, and corruption. Samba's paintings of this period reveal his perception of the social, political, economic and cultural realities of Zaïre, exposing all facets of everyday life in Kinshasa. At the age of sixteen he left his village to find work as a sign painter in the capital Kinshasa, where he began to develop a body of works that combined representational painting and text. that’s how he obtained, very soon, a big local following and coined the expression to designate himself: ‘Cheri Samba: popular artist.Painter Chéri Samba was born in 1956 in the Democratic Republic of Congo to a blacksmith father and a farmer mother, one of ten children. His themes are: customs, sexuality, illness, social inequalities, corruption… he is, with the painter Moke, one of the principal founders of the school of painting referred to as ‘popular zairean’. His canvases use a cartoon-like style together with the subtle synthesis of advertising images, verbal inventiveness, drawn especially from the cinema. His paintings, imbued with political awareness, are always representational, realistic, and their bright colors come from the use of acrylic paint. In regard to contents and form, Chéri Samba’s painting is characterised by the immediate concern with Zaire’s social reality in respect to his personal existence as an artist. After apprenticing for a few months in different sign painters shops, he opened his own shop in the street Kasa Bubu.
when he was a young boy he used to sell his ‘humorous’ sketches outside his elementary school. He lives and works in Kinshasa, Kongo and Paris. ‘Samba Wa Mbimba N’zinga Nurimasi Mdombasi’, called ‘Chéri Samba’, was born on 30 December 1956 in lower Zaire in Kinito Mvulta.
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