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“In 2009, I visited the exhibition Picasso and the Masters at the Grand Palais in Paris, which included works by artists like Caravaggio, El Greco, Paul Cezanne ... all of whom influenced Picasso. But there was not a single African mask. We know that African masks clearly influenced Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon and the work of some of his contemporaries such as Georges Braque. Omitting them from this exhibition was an insult to the traditional art of Africa.

In response to this exhibition the first thing I did was to make a work that simply showed to the audience how Cubism was …