Franck K. Lundangi

Angola
1958
Lundangi's work is deeply influenced by his Angolan heritage and his experiences in France. His art often navigates the space between personal and collective history, using a rich palette and textured surfaces to evoke emotional landscapes and the intertwining of different cultural narratives.

Franck K. Lundangi, born in 1958 in Angola and now residing in France since 1990, has established himself as an artist with a spiritually charged and imaginative approach to art. His works often transcend conventional reality, embracing a universe where fantastical elements such as animals, totems, and vibrant colors flourish. Lundangi's artistry delves into a spiritual realm, transforming human figures into dreamlike entities through the use of color blocks and intricate patterns, adding a mystical dimension to the notion of imagination.

In his artistic journey, Lundangi frequently revisits motifs that blur the lines between humanity and fantasy, employing colors and patterns to suspend figures in a space that oscillates between the real and the imagined. His creations feature elements from an original garden—leaves, fish, antelopes, birds, women, men—as well as symbols from contemporary society like pistols, evoking a dialogue between our presence in the world and our awareness of our surroundings.

Lundangi's vertical sculptures, which connect the heavens and the earth, may possess magical properties, while his life-sized works create an aura of peculiarity and directness due to their scale and otherness. This cosmos of shapes and forms birthed from Lundangi's brush invokes a cosmic symbiosis between humans and the universe, underscoring his quest for harmony between the spirit, humanity, and nature. His work invites viewers to partake in this spiritual exploration, reminiscent of the perpetual and spiritual motion of transformation portrayed in Ovid's "Metamorphoses," but with a contemporary African spirit.

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