A Beautiful Mess by Maxime Manga

Cameroonian artist, Maxime Manga, continues to impress us with his unique perspective of digital art, particularly how he uses his digital collages to showcase the beautiful mess that is the human being. We have always loved his art, but his most recent works push the boundaries of how he transforms portraiture of Black subjects to discuss this complicated thing called life.

Maxime builds on portraits that are usually in deep resplendent and gleaming black - an unapologetic celebration of Africa - but which burst with brilliant lines and geometric patterns that are in organised (or disorganised?) chaos. All this gives many of his portraits a distorted and dissonant feel - but this is humanity in essence, is it not?

See some of our favorite recent works from the digital artist.