THE ART

An artist who sees in painting “his homeland”, Kalama makes art differently. He distinguished himself from the conformism of an artistic activity at the service of Congolese-African authenticity through the reproduction of masks, ideograms and pictograms. This is what was in vogue in the Congolese pictorial space.

Since the 1990s, he has been practicing abstract art. He discovered in this practice a way and voice to express and develop a passion for an artistic approach, which is at the same time therapeutic, pragmatic and phenomenological.

His work links art to life as a “metalanguage” to bring out the “truth of being” through colors and forms. It also links art to science in order to think and practice painting as a spiritual and poetic experience, reflecting a set of emotions, sensations, moods like instrumental music or of a tantalizing novel.

Like a long interior journey, his work allows him “to find life and make its pulsations perceptible” in what he calls “cosmic vibrations”. In his artistic practice, he seeks to express the ideal of a universe of ethics, esthesia and aestetics through his emotions charged with movements which manifest a tension or an intentionality of Being and Time, to use the expression of German philosopher Martin Heidegger.