Artist Fred Bugs Recounts His Trip To Africa And Tells Us About African Art
Popular abstract figurative artist Federico Cabras,whose stage name is Fred Bugs tells us about his trip to the ruins of the Punic city of Carthage in Tunisia.
The artist remembers that it was running the year 2009, when together with his family Fred Bugs visited the ruins of Carthage,in exploration of several hours with a local tour guide, that ancient city so checkered shows all the supremacy that have imposed the various peoples from the great armaments.. millennia ago.
What remains is always a stark example of a failure…of how all wars with courage and understanding can be avoided and ended.
Regarding the culture, Bugs who already at that time began the first drafts of abstract geometric art, noticed the great poverty of the city neighborhoods,l and the many people covered with tents to avoid the scorching sun, while trying to sell figures created by themselves in various ceramic type materials, the animals of the African wilderness such as especially the elephants painted in sky blue with the addition of gold studs.
Real works of art of design that started from a price of 40 up to over 100 euros, prices still quite affordable regarding the period,in the mid two thousand years.
Unfortunately in addition to this as already mentioned the young artist noticed a great economic poverty of the local people.
Africa has always suffered from economic oppression, Understood as complete land exploitation; colonial invasion by France, England and U.S; from all this the African people have never gained absolutely nothing,unfortunately the same African art,and their decorative objects of hybrid art,between human and animal that today are being discovered and studied more with each passing day,has been obscured and erased by peoples such as the American people who imposed its rules of the partitioning of the whole of Africa in the period of ww1 and also during WW2,including Italy during ww2 between temporary conquests but also failures…although to a much lesser extent,than the British and French exploitation.
African art fortunately did not go unnoticed by important abstract artists but also artists of primitivism and child and cubist art learned so much from African design figures,and their own mysterious nature,almost unknown to this day..it is well known that several important European,American and South American abstract artists knew and were inspired in their figures by African design statues.
Artist Fred Bugs concludes by saying that there is still so much to discover in the world, special and spectacular art , that particular art that does not appear sponsored on google but you have to go discover it and know it And the many such economically well-off peopl especially millionairs and billionaires who visit Africa every year should help the people and villages and associations, not take selfies with them and post them as if those people were poor alien natives…or showing their brutality killing animals.
Our lord came into the world to do something concrete to help mankind in the harshest and most unfortunate contexts, and when he put it into practice,he did not waste time and did not need any visibility of the masses.
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