Africa-Press – Angola. A set of five works of painting and three of sculpture, which address the hybrid forms of influence of the Cokwe culture, by the plastic artist Francisco Van-Dúnem “Van”, will be on display from Thursday, until the day 26th of July, at the Iron Palace, in Luanda.
In an interview, the artist said that the work, produced with acrylic on canvas, mixed techniques, inlaid and intervened objects, results from a revisitation of the Cokwe culture, the result of a field expedition to check the existing bibliography regarding this tradition. endogenous.
The objective, he explained, is to get into the native culture of the peoples of Lunda Sul to better understand whether the content produced by nationals and foreigners corresponds to reality.
Van said that he found that parts of what he noticed are on the verge of extinction, but, nevertheless, much matches the literature.
He stated that this cultural reality should be added, because a good part of the books were written in the colonial period and by Westerners, thus presenting some gaps.
Francisco Van-Dúnem “Van” holds a master’s degree in artistic education from the University of Surrey Roehampton, London, in collaboration with the Instituto Superior Politécnico de Viana do Castelo (Portugal), founding member of the National Union of Plastic Artists and co-founder and professor at Medium School of Plastic Arts in Luanda.
He was director of the National Directorate of Artistic Training (DINFA) and is the holder of the Mural Cidade de Luanda (1984), for painting, Banco de Fomento e Exterior of Portugal (1990) and ENSA Arte, in the painting category, in editions of 1996 and 2004.
He has more than twelve individual exhibitions in the country and abroad, the first, called Drawing, Engraving and Painting, presented in Luanda (1984), the second Painting, in Setúbal (1993), the third Individual Participation, in the 23rd Bienal de São Paulo (1996) and the fourth Expo Cidade de Luanda, also in the capital (2006).
He participated in collective exhibitions of renowned artists in several countries, including Algeria, Cape Verde, Zambia, Gabon, Cuba, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Germany and the United States of America.
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