"I saw many things that led me to introduce my life in political activism. I saw my parents forced to work without food. I saw my uncles be punished by the colonial police. I saw my cousins \u200b\u200bbeing beaten. All this has prepared me in political life. The concerns and fears of the then still feel today. "
not the words of a deputy or a political leader, but those of Malangatana Valente Ngwenya (1936), a painter-a symbol of Mozambique, who left his country the
the January 5 2011. Whose personal story is intertwined in a symbiotic with that of his native country and his art is a strong testimony to the thirst for social justice, political and economic situation of Mozambique.
Malanatana was a Africa's best-known artists and are estimated at
internationally. His work, intense in color and expressiveness of content, have been around the world through its prestigious museums and galleries, exhibitions organized by the Portuguese, Swiss, American, Chilean and indiane.Malangatana has been called the "Picasso African" , both in style and above all for social involvement and the allegations against injustice expressed cross
erso his art. This approach makes her a painting tool that opposes the war and all forms of tyranny. Not by chance, was inspired by the creative look of Picasso, whose highest expression of civil commitment is Guernica became the emblem of the condemnation of totalitarianism and war. On the same floor facing many pictures of Malangatana, especially those made between the fifties and nineties of the twentieth century. A period of Mozambique's troubled history from the first Portuguese colonialism, from the little
terrible civil war that devastated the country for nearly two decades.
Malangatana canvases, oils infused with vibrant color, have followed the phases of conflict and peace in Mozambique: the red dominated his paintings until 1994 (the year in which there were the first multiparty elections) and then leave more room for soft colors and b
lu, which mark the new-found internal pacification. Monsters devour great little monsters is a book that recounts the dramas of the colonial era. The civil war - which saw the two collide opposing factions of the Liberation Front of Mozambique (Frelimo) and the Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo) - is well under immortalized Where are my fathers, my brothers and everyone else.
His art is bold, because he denounced abuses and at the same time is an art of social redemption, because it allowed him to realize a dream
born at the beginning of last century.
Mozambique has certainly lost a very important these days mouthpiece for the struggle for independence against all forms of war and poverty, but will never lose the legacy of his art that will serve as a reminder and incentive for future generations.
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