PIASA presents, in partnership with ASPIRE auction house, a sale of African Contemporary Art on 14 February 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Chéri Chérin was born in Kinshasa. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa while painting advertising posters, like most painters in the Congo, in his residential area of Ndjili. He was the teacher of the successful painter JP MIKA.
He created several murals on the walls of bars, hairdressers and small shops which are all testimonies of everyday life. His colourful canvases speak of the Congo and social issues such as the end of apartheid in South Africa, international conflicts and even current issues around the environment.
In 2015, his most emblematic pieces were presented at the Beauty Congo-Congo Kitoko exhibition at the Cartier Foundation, in Paris.
Christophe Person Head of Contemporary African Art, PIASA
Chéri Chérin (born in 1955, République Démocratique du Congo)
Aux sources d'une révolution : l'Afrique, 2017 (lot 143)
120 x 138 cm
Estimation : 4000 / 6300 €
Chéri Chérin (born in 1955, République Démocratique du Congo)
L'esclavagisme, 2006 (lot 144)
100 x 160 cm
Estimation : 4000 / 6300 €
