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Michael DE PLAEN
AFRICAN
Ethiopia
Ethiopia

Small travel in Ethiopia. First attempt to make some pictures into the wild.

COUP FATAL
COUP FATAL

SERGE KAKUDJI, FABRIZIO CASSOL, ALAIN PLATEL & RODRIGUEZ VANGAMAKVS & LES BALLETS C DE LA B In Coup Fatal, the Congolese countertenor Serge Kakudji and 13 musicians from Kinshasa get their teeth into a range of baroque compositions. A contemporary world, both musical and visual, is created around Kakudji’s vocals. The new music, directed by […]

Mask
Mask

Courtesy of Musée de Louvain-la-Neuve

Mask
Mask

Private Collection

Statuettes
Statuettes

Private Collection

MASK
MASK

Masks in central Africa are not inert objects aimed to cover faces. It is an often indissociable element of a costume, an expression or a context and it exceeds the occidental concept of taste. Here is the work: bring back its former function to the forgotten masks stored in museums. Le masque en Afrique central, […]

MODE MUNTU
MODE MUNTU

Reproduction of paintings. Mode Muntu, Ngoy Mukulu Muntu, 1940-1985. Mode began to paint in Laurent Moonens’s Academy, with extraordinary painters such as Floribert Mwembia. He met later painter Pili Pili Mulongoy, Mwenze Kibwanga, Bela Sara,… Immersed in his paintings and his workshop ever since my childhood, I have quivering memories of a universe where men’s […]