A)
“Under African conditions, I don’t do installations as an art form because market women are masters in this field and have been artistic by arranging mangoes, oranges, sardine tins, corned beef tins etc.”
B)
“I prefer to create art within the continent despite certain constraints like lack of critical appraisal and publicity.
Since Palaeolithic times, who is an artist supposed to create for anyway?
Did the Maya create art for appraisal to be showered on him by the Greeks?
However, it must also be stated that contemporary African artists have been sustained ironically by Western patronage in sales largely by unknown diplomats, businessmen and ordinary tourists.
We thank them.
Without them, the majority of our creative efforts would have been lost as there is no tradition of collection or preservation in the continent.”
ATO DELAQUIS