Tralala de la vie quotidienne (The Tralala of Everyday Life), Jean-Paul Mika

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Jean-Paul Mika, Tralala de la vie quotidienne (The Tralala of Everyday Life)
Jean-Paul Mika, Tralala de la vie quotidienne (The Tralala of Everyday Life)
Tralala de la vie quotidienne (The Tralala of Everyday Life)
2013
, artist
born 1980
Tralala de la vie quotidienne (The Tralala of Everyday Life), 2013
Where object was made: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Material/technique: canvas; paint
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 59.69 x 78.74 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 23 1/2 x 31 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: R. Charles and Mary Margaret Clevenger Art Acquisition Fund
Accession number: 2013.0053
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "20/21," Dec-2014, Cassandra Mesick In this work, JP Mika combines self-portraiture with scenes of everyday life in Kinshasa. Shown seated in the foreground, the artist paints a crowded train, which bursts off the canvas and into the chaotic street scene where he works. Like many works in the emerging art populaire tradition of urban Africa, the painting provides social commentary on the problems that plague Kinshasa, including overcrowding, theft, violence, prostitution.