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Painter Cinga Samson’s series Iyabanda Intsimbi explores the threats we face on a daily basis, be they from nature, chance, or the passage of time
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Cinga Samson (b1986, Cape Town) lives and works in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. He has participated in several group shows, including A Painting Today (Stevenson, Cape Town); In the night I remember curated by Kabelo Malatsie (Stevenson, Johannesburg); Our Fathers cura
Painter Cinga Samson’s series Iyabanda Intsimbi explores the threats we face on a daily basis, be they from nature, chance, or the passage of time
Inyongo 2 2020 Oil on canvas 89 × 104 3/4 in. (226 × 266 cm) (framed) © Cinga Samson Born in 1986 in Cape Town, South Africa, Samson first began painting
Painter Cinga Samson’s series Iyabanda Intsimbi explores the threats we face on a daily basis, be they from nature, chance, or the passage of time
“Godzilla was a product of the times... The image of what a monster is shouldn't stay the same. It should be different so that people will be shocked...
“Always use the words ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ or ‘Africa’ in your title,” begins Binyavanga Wainaina’s withering 2005 satire “How to Write about Africa.”
Inyongo 2 2020 Oil on canvas 89 × 104 3/4 in. (226 × 266 cm) (framed) © Cinga Samson Born in 1986 in Cape Town, South Africa, Samson first began painting
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Cinga Samson’s latest paintings depict young African men, posed with confidence, dressed in luxury-labeled clothes and jewelry, and holding flowers, fans, and shoes against more traditional landscape backgrounds. Their eyes painted in white, the portraits are both celebratory and haunting. For the new series, the Cape Town–based artist set out to create a positive depiction… Read More »Cinga Samson Captures the Beauty and Spiritual Side of Young African Men
They're self-portraits, where Samson hopes to share his own journey and have others resonate with that, but the empty gray eyes imply an anonymous impenetrability.
