Glamourous And Fairy
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Literature : Primae Noctis Art Gallery, Contemporary African Art, 2014
Notes : Glamourous and Fairy is a three-piece mixed collage by Congolese artist Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo created from magazine cut outs of body parts and products. On a vertical black background, a female figure with her head growing tree branches holds a bird like creature. In the lower horizontal piece the torso of a female figure continues on a white background, next to a female head which is placed on top of a blue root-like form. Bondo re-contextualizes mass-produced commercial images of beauty and consumerism, as fragments of a wider commentary on globalized mass consumption. Though both figures reference the ecological balance of nature, this is contradicted by their construction from images of plastic commercialism. ’My art is an expression of resistance to homogenization, to the creation of a world of uniform people, but also a reaction to the confusion of aesthetic codes and cultural references’, explains Bondo. ‘It is also a reflection on the positive and negative effects of a modern society dominated by multinationals’ (Primo Marella Gallery, Africa, Assume Art Position!, 2010, p. 103).
Condition_report : This work appears to be in very good condition. Examination under UV light shows no evidence of retouch or repair.
