In 2019 Jean Pigozzi donated 45 artworks to the MoMA in New York. Curated up to 2008 by André Magnin, now an independent curator and art dealer, the Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art is regularly acquiring new pieces, adding new artists and lending works to major art institutions and museums around the world. It includes several thousand artworks featuring paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, installations and videos from contemporary artists living in 22 sub-Saharan African countries. You will see a notification whether or not the current bid has met the reserve.The Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art is a private collection created in 1989 by Italian business man, Jean Pigozzi. In order for the lot to sell, the reserve price must be met. *A reserve price is the minimum value the seller will accept for the work. If a bid is placed within the last five minutes of the auction, the end time will extend by an additional five minutes allowing for final bids. We will never exceed your maximum bid amount, and you may raise it at any time. We will continue to bid on your behalf up to your maximum bid only if there are competing bidders on the lot. * If the amount you select is greater than or equal to the reserve, your bid will automatically meet the reserve. The bid you select from the dropdown will be your maximum bid amount.Īll lots offered have a reserve price that must be met in order for the work to sell. His works are held in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC) of Jean Pigozzi, among others. Samba was born in 1956, and currently lives and works in Kinshasa and Paris. In 2007, curator Robert Storr invited Samba to participate in the 52nd International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, entitled Think with the Senses-Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense, which was described in the press as seminal. I am a rebel, insensitive to the difficulties and misfortunes of others.Ĭhéri Samba is a renowned painter from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Mine is neither on the left, nor on the right, nor even at the center. Souvenez-vous de la turquie, le chili, le rwanda…?” Je suis un rebelle, insensible au difficultes ou au malheurs des autres. Le mien n’est ni a gauche, ni a droite, ni meme au centre. Ils sont peut etre des faibles ou des corrompus. The dramatic balances of light and shade in the lot are rare in the artist’s oeuvre, and a similar piece was exhibited at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris in 2004.Ĭ’est curieux de voir les humains. Inherently related to ancestral worship, witchcraft, and magic, his bold forms-rendered with poster-like exactitude-are in effect a reflection on the dilemmas of modern life surrounding uprising, and the resourcefulness necessary to navigate it. Strong colors, dominated by primary red, contextualize the transportation to Africa that Samba in addition provides. The flags of Turkey, Chile, and Rwanda, the countries he refers to which have histories of unrest, in the composition lay beside weapons and an array of other bright symbols, visualizing a sense of his words. Its lower right inscription points to his view on the weakness of most humans, that exaggerates the righteousness of other individuals, and also his own bravery.
The present painting is a vivid blueprint for how he has portrayed accessible and traditional narratives, blended with current calls to action.
Ever since his participation in the pivotal 1989 Centre Georges Pompidou exhibition Magiciens de la terre, which focused on key cross-cultural figures in Contemporary art, Chéri Samba has been celebrated for his images of popularized imagination.
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