Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga

This first international monograph on the artist’s work provides an in-depth account of his life and career, together with detailed colour plates presenting all of his major paintings to date.

The immediately attractive surfaces of Kamuanga’s paintings, on closer inspection, open to reveal more mysterious, hidden depths that uncover the seismic shifts in the economic, political and social realities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the past few centuries. In confronting the historical burdens of a problematic colonial past that still weigh on a challenging present, Kamuanga’s dramatic figures portray an innate resilience born of strength that predicts a far brighter future to come. Eddy Kamuanga is now recognised as one of the most interesting contemporary African artists working today, and his work has been widely shown in Africa, Europe and the United States.

The monograph includes texts by Sammy Baloji, Sandrine Colard, Gerard Houghton and Gabriela Salgado, with a foreword by Gus Casely-Hayford.

Hardcover / 9.5” x 12.25” / 248 pages / 200 colour illustrations £60 / ISBN: 978-8-89-183397-6 / Rizzoli New York / Release date: 11th October 2022