” Many things have changed. » Ten years ago, on December 11, 2013, the great Senegalese sculptor Ousmane Sow (1935-2016) entered the Academy of Fine Arts. He was the first black artist installed in this very prestigious French institution and he wanted to represent an entire continent. Interview on the legacy of an art giant with his successor in the chair, the Italian Giuseppe Penone, winner of the Praemium Imperiale prize, the “Nobel Prize in the Arts”.
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The touching legacy of Ousmane Sow in the Academy of Fine Arts, recalled by Giuseppe Penone
