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Youth chats by George Dinyama Lilanga [Tanzania]
2000
Acrylic on canvas, 142 x 252 cm
The banner's image is part of a painting (bottom left corner) by George Lilanga. In 1980, George Lilanga encountered the works of the Tinga Tinga School (established by the followers of Eduardo Saidi Tingatinga) and Tingatinga's exuberantly patterned and abstracted paintings had a profound effect on his work. Lilanga's playful and colorful figures are best understood as heirs to the Makonde shetani, the unruly spirits of the Makonde cosmology. He died in Dar es Salaam in 2005.
The painting belongs to The Pigozzi Collection, Geneva currently on loan at the WHO/UNAIDS Headquarters building in Geneva.