The famous photograph by Alfred Stiglitz from the 291 Gallery in New York shows an installation by Edward Steichen where cubist drawings, a wasp’s nest and a metal bowl are juxtaposed with an African art object. The chiselled lines of this almost abstract image can be seen again and again in the sculptures of Constantin Brancusi, in the sketches of Fernand Léger and in the drawings of Pablo Picasso. A similar subject is placed in the space of Steichenoux’s exhibition-ommage ‘The Human Genus’ at the Béton Central Exhibition Centre.
At the lecture we will learn what ‘Mbulu-Ngulu’ is, talk about what European artists saw (and did not notice) in African art and try to answer the question why the human race needs the support of ancestors.
Lecturer: Daria Vanyukova, Candidate of Art History, Senior Researcher at the State Museum of Oriental Art.