PIASA presents, in partnership with ASPIRE auction house, a sale of African Contemporary Art on 14 February 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Raymond Tsham Mateng graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa, class of 1989. This outstanding designer has made a specialty of working with a ballpoint pen. A simple black Bic, with which he draws on Canson paper masks and statuettes from the Congo and elsewhere, which he most often stages in profusion. Why the primary arts? "Because this is the best Africa has to offer the world!" After working exclusively with the black ballpoint pen for more than twenty years, Tsham again introduced colour into his works.
Discreet by temperament, meticulous, seldom out of his workshop, Tsham is nonetheless open to others and to the world. He works by feeding on current affairs, continuously connected to an international radio. From time to time, this tireless worker gives himself a moment of relaxation while painting. His paintings then reveal a surprising audacity. But it is in the design and the praise of African statuary that he excels. Both meaningful and aesthetic, celebrating the past while contemporary, his work is incomparable.
Christophe Person Head of Contemporary African Art, PIASA
Tsham (born in 1963 in Democratic Republic of Congo)
77.5 x 98 cm
Estimation : 5040 / 8000 €
