“Art is a matter of life in Congo,” Gómez told Artnet News. “The artists give everything to their art because it is through their imagination that they have found a way to reverse [the ...

Eventually, Morris let Congo paint. While he never made any representational art, he did appear to have some chops when it came to abstract work, favoring a radiating fan pattern. “It was truly ...

Like artworks made by very young children and those experiencing psychoses, Congo’s work makes us believe in the much maligned concept of originality in art. Functioning beyond cultural ...

In the Kinshasa Botanical Garden, a troupe of cardboard animals – monkeys, a gorilla, leopards, a giraffe – stand to attention in a clearing. Their handlers, puppeteers dressed in black, begin ...

Yet Congo has long had a bad rep, and until recently, was never seen as a hub for art. Often viewed as one of the world’s last and most challenging frontier economies, when one thinks of Congo ...