Ange KUMBI [1952. lives & works in aix-la-chapelle] "Lovers". Oil on canvas. 63 x 82 cm. Signed lower left and dated 91. After primary school, Kumbi successfully studied pedagogy in Kasangalu. However, he soon left his studies and moved to the capital. There he turned to music and played for a while in the orchestra "Eboko ley" He graduates from studies at the National Conservatory of Music and Contemporary Dramatic Art and attended several workshops on painters It was there that he met the great artist Chéri Samba and spent some time with him. Later, in 1973, he was the first contemporary painter to open a studio in the commune of Kinshasa and became well-known. However, his paintings, often of small size, portray scenes of streets and neighbourhoods or love and its ungratefulness In his work he denounces the evils of his society, recalling the obscurities of man himself...