Coco Mobuli

Coco Mobuli's boldly chromatic compositions portray African daily life, particularly images of women, deities, folklore, spirituality and a strong cultural faith in the hereafter. A fine artist working with linseed oil and tube paint to render paintings which nod equally to Impressionism, Realism and Idealism, Mobuli's ultimate goal is to use pictorial art as a means of developing solidarity within the far-reaching African Congolese community. Each work is the result of an intensive three part process involving draft, execution and highlighting. Interested in the transcendental links between visual art and the natural environment, these contemporary paintings on burlap linen or hemp canvas achieve a neo-primitive and totemistic presence through their constitution of solid lines, open spaces and archetypal symbolism. Mobuli plumbs ancestral sensibilities, embracing 'God-Earth-Man' as a type of universal creative trinity.

Coco Mobuli was born in 1974 in Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, is of Congolese nationality, and studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa.