One of the Most Exciting Young African Artists Today, Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga at October Gallery
Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, a young African artist coming from the Democratic Republic of Kongo (DRC), draws influence from the cultural diversity, hybridity and complexity of his hometown Kinshasa.
Offering an intelligent approach to popular culture by revealing anxieties and joys born of African urbanism, his art speaks of a young culture enraptured by commercialism and modernity. His latest works will be presented in his first solo exhibition in October Gallery, which is at the same time his first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom. The show will feature his new works from the present series Mangbetu where he explores a difficult situation of the Mangbetu people, an ethnic group of warrior extraction in the DRC.