Modern African art

African art is not just masks, rituals, and colonial past. In this new episode of the podcast titled «People and events aren’t accidents» we dismantle stereotypes and demonstrate how multifaceted, global, and current the modern art by creators from the African continent can be.

We will speak with the experts on how African art inspired Picasso and the avant-guardists, what differentiates an «instinctive» artist from a master with a European art school background, and where the divide lies between local tradition and the global art market.

In this episode you shall learn:

Why many successful African authors are returning home to build cultural centres.
How photographers from Mali and Cameroon conquer the Venice biennale.
Where to obtain modern African art and how much it may cost.
What David Lynch, water spirits, and Barthélémy Toguo’s watercolour techniques have in common.

Featured in this podcast are:

Alexey Loginov, historian of photography, collector, CVC BÉTON cofounder and art director.
Olga Michi, photoartist, collector, CVC BÉTON cofounder and art director.
Vladimir Sumashedov, stage director.
Daria Vanyukova, Africanist, Candidate of Art History.

Listen to the podcast to discover Africa as the continent of brave, intellectual, and visionary art, free from the stereotypes of poverty and exoticism.