Yubism: Life and Art of Yubi Kirindongo
Yubism: Life and Art of Yubi Kirindongo
An ode to the simple complexity, sensitive rigidity, and harsh beauty of Curaçaoan reality - Yubismo tells the story behind the life and art of one of Curaçao’s most celebrated and influential modern artists: Yubi Kirindongo.
Known for his reuse of obsolete materials, Yubi Kirindongo, in spite of his underprivileged and unconventional origins, left his mark on both the Curaçaoan and International art world.
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Runtime: 1 hour 48 seconds
Language: Dutch, English, Papiamento
Country: Curaçao
Premiere: Grenada
Corry van Heijningen
Director
Corry van Heijningen
Writer
Corry van Heijningen
Producer
Encore Digital
Producer
Documentary &#;Yubismo &#; Life and art of Yubi Kirindongo&#;.
The documentary on visual artist Yubi Kirindongo, titled &#;Yubismo &#; Life and art of Yubi Kirindongo’ premiered on August 25, , at The Movies Punda, in Curaçao, in a filled cinema hall.
The film is by director Corry van Heijningen. She spent five years working on the minute movie. Corry van Heijningen was director of TeleCuraçao&#;s children&#;s program ‘Hier zijn wij, wie ben jij’ (This is us, who are you) in &#;Yubismo&#; is her first documentary.
Based on interviews with art lovers, professionals, friends, and family, the movie portrays Curacao&#;s internationally known and much-loved visual artist Yubi Kirindongo (Curaçao, ). In the documentary, Yubi is frequently speaking, and it becomes apparent that he is also creative in his use of language. With his dark voice, he speaks quickly and laconically. But he doesn&#;t mince words and intersperses his story with jokes and puns.
Before the film is shown, seventy-six-year-old Yubi gets to speak, and he does so in Papiamentu. He greets his fellow artists sitting in the audience. Teasingly, he urges them not to lose hope, for likely, they also will
Yubi Kirindongo, Cultural Icon of Curaçao
On January 24, , Yubi Kirindongo is born in Willemstad. The umbilical cord around his neck nearly strangles him. According to the artist, the incident explains the origins of his uncontrollable energy. It must have been an enormous shot of adrenalin that helped him to survive, because what follows is a turbulent and fascinating life. Kirindongo endures a hard, fatherless childhood and, at the age of nineteen, stows away on a cargo ship heading for Europe, where he wanders from place to place, living on the tattered fringe of society.
As an autodidact, Yubi begins to paint and gradually discovers that art is a way to express his own liberation and development. Back on Curaçao, he evolves into one of the island’s best known and most socially engaged artists. He devotes himself to effecting social change and eliciting a greater cultural contribution from the black community. His frustration over the underestimation of his Afro-Caribbean brothers and sisters – and the consequent denial of their culture – and his anger over the pollution and ecological destruction of his beloved island are sources of inspiration for his growth as an artist.
Kirindongo, Yubi
After a hard youth, at the age of nineteen the fatherless Yubi Kirindongo left the Antilles as a stowaway on a freighter for Europe. After eventually arriving in Amsterdam -by way of Athens, Rome and Genoa- he found work as a hospital ward orderly, but also as a boxer. However, Kirindongo’s life took a turn for the worse, and he ended up on the seamy side of the s petit bourgeois Dutch society, reaching it deepest point with a spell in prison. However, while serving his sentence, he came in contact with art. Kirindongo felt liberated after reading the life story of Caravaggio. The same hot-headedness, constantly having to watch his back, but still able to create magnificent works of art.
Yubi Kirindongo started painting when he was still in the Netherlands. In the mids he returned to Curaçao, where he discovered that he was more of a sculptor than painter, developing into a socially engaged artist who championed the far-reaching emancipation of the black population. Through his art, he has fought for the cause of social change.
Kirindongo works with scrapheap material and waste: he makes it arise from the ashes like a phoenix into splendid sculptures. He h
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