From his paintings spring the colors of a continent, and the laughter and dreams of the people. Born in 1956, in a village near Kinshasa, the son of a blacksmith, the Congolese Chéri Samba is today one of the most famous African painters. His message boards can be found both at the Museum of Modern Arts in New York and at the Center Pompidou in Paris. Thanks to the Jean Pigozzi collection, the most important collection of contemporary African art in the world, the Maillol museum in Paris is paying tribute to him with the first major retrospective. Encounter.
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Retrospective of the Congolese painter Chéri Samba: “When I paint, I have three worries”
