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Jan van Eden

"The naked truth"

14th October through 15th November 2014

 

 

 

Location Galerie Walravens, Tiensestraat 94, Leuven (Belgium)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andre Walravens, Jan van Eden en     , 12 oktober 2014

 

 

 

The naked truth, 2013, Oil on cotton, 120x150x5 cm, Reference: 132502

 

 

 

Posing at the Chioggia, Nice, 2012, Oil and acrylic on cotton, 120x150x5 cm, Reference 122504

 

 

 

Ana Karina watching "Le passion de Jeanne D'Arc", 2011, Oil on cotton, 150x120 cm, Reference 112502

 

 

 

De kunstminnaar, 2010, Oil and acrylic on cotton, 44x30x5 cm, Reference 103425

 

 

 

Lumumba, 2013, Oil and acrylic on linen, 180x120x5 cm, Reference 132201

 

 

Patrice Émery Lumumba (1925 - 1960) was the Prime Minister of the independent Republic of the Congo from June to September 1960. In 2002, Belgium formally apologized for its role in overseeing Lumumba's assassination.

Patrice Émery Lumumba (1925 – 1960) was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first Prime Minister of the independent Republic of the Congo from June until September 1960. He played a significant role in the transformation of the Congo from a colony of Belgium into an independent republic. Ideologically an African nationalist and Pan-Africanist, he led the Congolese National Movement (MNC) party from 1958 until his assassination.

France's ambassador in Léopoldville maintained a certain bemused distance when Belgian King Baudouin handed over power to Lumumba at a solemn ceremony on 30 June 1960. The king lauded the "genius of King Léopold II", whose rule of the colony had achieved international notoriety. Lumumba, on the other hand, delivered a "violent diatribe against the regime of exploiters, executioners and colonialists" and the "humiliating slavery that was forced upon us", addressing the Congolese people and not the king, who, visibly embarrassed, "talked to his neighbours".
While the French ambassador expressed his admiration for the 35-year-old former leader of the independence struggle, whom he described as "skilful, agressive and courageous", very different from the "bland politicians around him". Lumumba personified the Congolese nation, he commented, unlike the "uncouth clan chiefs" bogged down in their "self-interest and their traditional hatreds". But the ambassador also warned that Lumumba could become "the strong man of Congo within a few months", which he judged to be both good and bad news - on the one hand he had the qualities of a statesman but on the other it was "worrying when one thinks of his admiration for [Kwame] Nkrumah and [Gamal Abdel] Nasser".

In 2002, Belgium formally apologised for its role overseeing the assassination of Lumumba.

 

 

 

 

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