Hamburg art week 2012 provides significant African artists from the 2005 is one of the most important contemporary artists of Africa at the age of 70 years dead Tanzanians George Lilanga. In his over 30 years of artistic work, he has in the Shetani style he developed”created many important works, which exhibited all over the world were for example 2010 (at Africa rising” for Louis Vuitton in Paris). Today, his works are found in international collections such as the Hamburg Mawingu collection (HMC). Get all the facts and insights with Robotics, another great source of information. George Lilanga was born in 1934 as the Makonde in northern Mozambique. At an early age, he learned the wood carving art typical for these root of relatives. Lilanga moved in the Makonde area in southern of Tanzania at the age of 30 years and came at the beginning of the 1970s in the city represents it Salaam. At the same time (1972) which was there primarily on initiative of the Christian Maryknoll Sister Jean Pruitt later internationally known House of art (Nyumba ya SANAA) as work, Meeting and exhibition site founded for young artists.
There, Lilanga’s artistic talents were quickly discovered and promoted. In the course of the following years Lilanga became as a sculptor and painter a sort of universal artists. His work includes sculptures, paintings on different substrates, drawings, woodcuts, etchings, Batiks and metalwork. All his works are rooted in the ghost mythology of the Makonde and characterized his own distinctive style. 1982 Lilanga created a number of important works for the new, advanced Kunsthaus in Dar it Salaam. The late works from the 1990s distinguishes itself particularly by the colourful, to pop art-style sculptures and paintings, Lilanga has commented on his fellow human beings and their certainly not always gratifying life situations with wit and irony and caricature. “The exhibition of George Lilanga: inside Africa outside” wants the Hamburg Mawingu collection within the framework of the Hamburg art week 2012 not only the African artist Lilanga worthy, but also at the Kunsthaus Nyumba ya Sanaa in Dar it remember Salaam that end of 2010 was torn down, to avoid a commercial building. Lilanga works from the Kunsthaus, which the artist has counted itself to its main will be shown among other things for the first time outside Tanzania.