Utilisateur:Rufin Wakilongo/Antoinette Lubaki
Modèle:Infobox person/Wikidata Antoinette Lubaki (other signature : Antoinet Lubaki ) is a Congolese watercolor painter born in 1895 in Kabinda. She is one of the few known modern Congolese female artists of the early XX . century[1].
Biography[modifier | modifier le code]
Antoinette Lubaki is the daughter of the chief of the village of Kabinda, located in the colonial province of Katanga, currently in the province of Lomami [2]. With her husband the ivory painter Albert Lubaki and the fashion designer Djilatento, she was part of the group of "Congo image makers", which is regarded as the first generation of modern Congolese painters made famous in Europe by the territorial agent Georges Thiry and the employee of the Ministry of Gaston-Denys Perier colonies[3],[4].
Exhibitions and collections[modifier | modifier le code]
As a matter of fact, the name of Antoinette Lubaki is not always mentioned in the exhibitions which present her works, The authors mentioning only her husband (Albert) or simply Lubaki.
- 1929 : Primitive Arts and Popular Arts, Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels [5] .
- 2015 : Beauty Congo-Congo Kitoko, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art.
References[modifier | modifier le code]
- « IWALEWAHAUS - #031 Untitledby Atoinet [Antoinette] Lubaki », sur www.iwalewahaus.uni-bayreuth.de (consulté le )
- « Antoinette Lubaki », sur AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes (consulté le )
- Thys van den Audenaerde, D. & Cornelis [Bompuku Eyenga-Cornelis], S. (eds.)., La naissance de la peinture contemporaine en Afrique centrale 1930-1970, Tervuren, Annales Sciences historiques 16. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale,
- « Peintures sublimes du Congo des années 1930 », sur Notes D'Art Brut, (consulté le )
- Jean-Luc VELLUT, « La peinture du Congo-Zaïre et la recherche de l'Afrique innocente. Présentation du livre de J.A. Cornet, R. De Cnodder, I. Dierickx & W. Toebosch : "60 ans de peinture au Zaïre" », Bulletin des Séances - Nouvelle série, Vol. 36 N° 4, , p. 633-659
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