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Featured Artist - Chéri Chérin

Chéri Chérin photo Chéri CHÉRIN (1955) [view available works from this artist]

Joseph Kinkonda, called Chéri Chérin, was born on Febr. 16th, 1955 in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic Congo, formerly called Zaire). He studied at the Academie des Beaux Arts in Kinshasa under the Austrian ceramics-artist Peter Weihs. During this time Chéri Chérin started to paint posters in his residential-quarter Ndjili. Chéri Chérin at his studio in Kinshasa

Chérin created murals on the walls of bars, barbershops and small boutiques. Impressive pictures of daily life but also with very serious contents.

Today Chérin is one of the best known painters in Kinshasa and a teacher to many young talented artists.

source: Political Art gallery

 

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Chéri Chérin GALLERY

 

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