‘Art is powerful, it simply needs unleashing and ultimately it will influence, inspire and help to reclaim Africa.
The arts are not a first-world luxury, Another Africa is intended to be a constant reminder of this.’

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A series of paintings by French artist Augustin Lesage (1876-1954) who is one of the most fascinating figures associated with ‘Art Brut’. Lesage is considered as one of the first ‘Spiritualist’ painters. First a laborer in the coal mines, one evening in 1911, when he was thirty-five years old, he heard a voice underground that told him “Un jour, tu seras peintre” (One day, you will be a painter). The rest is history.

A series of paintings by French artist Augustin Lesage (1876-1954) who is one of the most fascinating figures associated with ‘Art Brut’. Lesage is considered as one of the first ‘Spiritualist’ painters.

First a laborer in the coal mines, one evening in 1911, when he was thirty-five years old, he heard a voice underground that told him “Un jour, tu seras peintre” (One day, you will be a painter). The rest is history.

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