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Original work/Jean Kita Wantan. Oil on canvas illustrating 3 masked women dancing. Signed and dated 2000. TBE. 55 X 78 cm Of Congolese nationality, Kita was born in Lubumbashi in 1975. He entered the School of Fine Arts and graduated in 1995. In 1997 he studied philosophy at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lubumbashi. He had a decisive encounter in 1994 when the great Barnabé Cheng Baretti invited him to work in his studio. Cheng will teach him how to use and preserve artistic materials, prepare a canvas, a frame, match colors, create pictorial depth ... Other artists enrich his creative universe: Maya, Musas, Mweru, Wa Kadi de Sikasso, Mu fuma and Seraphine Mbeya. He frequently discusses semiotics and the history of traditional African art with Henri Bun Djoko, the former curator of the ethnography section at the National Museum of Lubumbashi and currently technical director at the Institute of National Museums of Congo in Kinshasa. Kita participated in more than 50 exhibitions between 2000 and 2012 in the following cities: BXL, Namur, Liège, Noves, Maldonnes, Paris, Lubumbashi and Kinshasa. The Royal Museum of Africa has 5 works of the artist in its collections.
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Original work/Jean Kita Wantan. Oil on canvas illustrating 3 masked women dancing. Signed and dated 2000. TBE. 55 X 78 cm Of Congolese nationality, Kita was born in Lubumbashi in 1975. He entered the School of Fine Arts and graduated in 1995. In 1997 he studied philosophy at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lubumbashi. He had a decisive encounter in 1994 when the great Barnabé Cheng Baretti invited him to work in his studio. Cheng will teach him how to use and preserve artistic materials, prepare a canvas, a frame, match colors, create pictorial depth ... Other artists enrich his creative universe: Maya, Musas, Mweru, Wa Kadi de Sikasso, Mu fuma and Seraphine Mbeya. He frequently discusses semiotics and the history of traditional African art with Henri Bun Djoko, the former curator of the ethnography section at the National Museum of Lubumbashi and currently technical director at the Institute of National Museums of Congo in Kinshasa. Kita participated in more than 50 exhibitions between 2000 and 2012 in the following cities: BXL, Namur, Liège, Noves, Maldonnes, Paris, Lubumbashi and Kinshasa. The Royal Museum of Africa has 5 works of the artist in its collections.
