Visit to the painter and collector of primitive arts Guillaume Tel 4 f in the heart of Paris, around the statue of a Congolese pipe smoker by Grégoire Massengo, one of the fathers of modern Congolese sculpture.
How at the beginning of 2022, while doing research in France on Henriette Lorimier and the women painters of the early 19th century, in a cellar in Bagneux Jonathan Bougard came across a bust signed Muta Mayola, the most important Congolese sculptor of the twentieth century, of which we thought all the works had disappeared. At the same time as on a set of works by his students and nephews Grégoire Massengo, Benoit Konongo and Edouard Malonga. The fathers of modern Congolese sculpture, main representatives of the Muta Mayola school.
Jonathan Bougard is a French designer and documentary film director active in French Polynesia since 2005.