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Item: Indépendance

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

1981

Painting, 200 x 147.5 x 5 cm .
Materials: house paint, acrylic and polyester on Plexiglas

Collection: Courtesy of the artist and Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (Inv. no. 19810001C).

"After the decolonisation of Belgian Congo in 1960, many Congolese men thought that the word indépendence meant ‘a beautiful blonde woman’. That was what they had fought for. What is knowledge? In this work, I started using figurative elements, whereas before, there were only texts, signs and symbols in my paintings."

− AMVK

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Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven /...
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK (°1951, Antwerp, Belgium), studied graphic design at the Fine Arts Academy of Antwerp and has been prolific in

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