Original work/Kanyemba Yav Louis. Oil on canvas depicting African masks in a colorful palette. Signed and dated 2009. TBE+. 125 X 58 cm Louis Kanyemba (1937 Luena/Angola) began his training in 1947 with Pilipili Mulangoy in the art workshop "le Hangar" founded by Pierre Romain-Desfossés in 1946 (Elisabethville) and where other great names were active: Norbert Ilunga, Bela Sara, Mwenze Kibwanga, Raphaël Kalela and Sylvestre Kaballa. The meeting with the master of African art Pili Pili will have a considerable impact on the evolution of his work. Kanyemba draws his inspiration from scenes of daily life: fishing, hunting parties, village scenes. The painting becomes a poetic space, the symbiosis between man and nature, more than the representation of nature itself. This gives an incredible strength to these paintings. This modern Congolese painting strikes by its singularity and its modernity. Thus, heir of the first generation of great painters of the workshop of the "Hangar", his work appears in the title of the masterpieces of the Congolese painting. He participated in personal and collective exhibitions from 1961 in Lubumbashi and Kinshasa. In the early 80's, his works were exhibited in Belgium and the United States.