Kitoko
A
collection of art work of Neves Sam. Kitoko, most of what contemporary,
displaying scenes of the past and today’s world, influenced by
old Kongo ancestry.
Kitoko
was born in Angola, within the court of law
of Mbanza-Kongo, in a town where the law mattered the most.(court of
law of the bakongo) at the northern tip of Angola. And it was in this
capital where, the great Kongo kingdom founded by Nimi a Lukeni and
Nzinga a Mkuwu was established circa 1300s, when Nimi a Lukeni build
a court of law (Mbanza, court in Kikongo) from which the kingdom arose.
Acrylics, oil, chalks, crayons and pencils on canvas, papers and exan
bags, are the mediums used by Kitoko. The art of seeing however, is
forever made pleasurable for us, by the mother nature herself, and who
presents us with an impeccable beauty and diversities of plants, water,
sun, moon, which we represent in a form of art form. The way I see things
on different days, and the way I feel about them at that particular
moment...
In these central African countries; the art form was somewhat geometrical,
some body parts are exaggerated, some shrunken; eyes project, cheeks
sink, mouths disappear, torsos become elongated; eyes sockets expand
to cover almost the entire face; the human face and figures are broken
apart and formed again in new ways and proportions that had previously
lain beyond the sight of traditional European realism.
But my main influential source remains my African ancestry in which
geometrical shapes were widely used in describing visual themes with
an endless perspective.
