Paris - France honors sculptor
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Senegal’s Ousmane Sow, who sculpted Nelson Mandela as a goalkeeper extending his hand “to keep corrupt African heads of state at bay,” was on Wednesday honored in his adoptive France.
At a ceremony in Paris, Sow, the first African to be invited to join France’s Academy of Fine Arts, dedicated the honor to “all of Africa, its diaspora and the great man Nelson Mandela.”
A minute’s silence was observed for anti-apartheid hero Mandela, who died last Thursday.
The 78-year-old Sow captured the world’s attention in 1999 when his muscular, larger-than-life sculptures of wrestlers were exhibited on a Paris bridge. He is considered one of Africa’s foremost artists.
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