Earth and sky merge into a single speckled continuum: the mwangisa, a cosmic nebula from which every scene emerges.
Amani Bodo (b. 1988, Kinshasa, DRC) is a self-taught painter, the youngest son of Pierre Bodo (1953-2015), a leading figure of the Congolese Popular School of painting alongside Moké and Chéri Samba. A prodigy who began painting at ten and sold his first canvas at sixteen, his works entered the Jean Pigozzi Contemporary African Art Collection when he was twenty-one. His figurative, symbolic painting with surrealist accents combines virtuoso technique with biting humour, addressing spirituality, social issues and Africa's relationship with the world. His trademark is the mwangisa, a speckled, nebula-like background where earth and sky form a single continuum. He lives and works in Kinshasa.