Africa-Press – Angola. The collective photographic exhibition “Kindala & Mbiavanga Expo” opens today, at 5 pm, at the Afonso Van-Dúnem Mbinda auditorium, in Luanda, bringing together works by the artists Hermenegildo Kindala and Wilson Mbiavanga.
The exhibition marks the debut of the artists in the Luanda art scene, whose paths come from different paths in the world of arts, although with similar objectives, whose message aims to “deliver a visual experience, appealing to the artistic sensibility of each one about the city (Luanda) where we were born”, says the UNAP press release.
The exhibition, a partnership with the Sagrada Esperança Foundation, brings together 50 unpublished photographs, with multiple motifs captured in odd moments. Hermenegildo Kindala explores the theme “Resilience” in his works, while Wilson Mbiavanga offers art lovers a proposal under the theme “Unconscious Harmony”.
In addition to encouraging a harmonious rapprochement between art and the Angolan public, the event aims to build synergies, boost new ideas in the artist class and jointly stimulate patronage.
Hermenegildo Kindala, born in Luanda, has been an urban photographer since an early age, having started at the age of 12 to record landscapes, using his FujiFilm compact camera.
In 2011, he studied Social Photography with the film director Ananias Barão. In the following two years, she met in Vilmar Moreno Cardoso, a Brazilian teacher, a mentor for the formation of Artistic Direction.
Since then, photography has been his main vehicle of artistic expression.
In turn, Wilson Mbiavanga graduated in Philosophy and Sociology at the Sorbonne-Paris IV University, and continued his academic training with a course in Criminal Sciences at Boston University, but did not finish, as his love for cinema spoke louder. Currently based in New York, Wilson is a director, screenwriter and co-founder of the production company MG Cinecraft.
He won several awards: Best Humor, Best Web Series and Best Script at the “Top Indie Film Awards 2021”. He won the Jury Prize at the “Chelsea Film Festival” (2021), with the series “SAFU”. international festivals in South Korea, Japan, UK and Italy.
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