(16 Dec 2023)
UGANDA ART
SOUCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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LENGTH: 6:18
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kampala, Uganda - 20 November 2023
1. Wide of Afriart art gallery interior
2. Mid of Daudi Karungi and man viewing paintings
3. Close of painting, pull out to Karungi and man viewing paintings
4. Close of painting by Charlene Komuntale
5. Various of art exhibition by Charlene Komuntale
6. Close of Karungi
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Daudi Karungi, artist/curator, Afriart Gallery:
“This is a great time for art from Africa, and from Africans, because for many years it was neglected. There was no attention to it. If you've looked at all the waves of art, from European art ,from the Renaissance, and all that and then there was the American period Jackson Pollock, and the like, Basquiat, Andy Warhol. And then the Picassos and Europe again. And then we’ve seen South America with Frida Kahlo and so on. We’ve seen India with Anish Kapoor and all these people, and then China and then Japan and Australia everywhere, but no Africa, until, I would say, 7, 8 years ago.”
8. Close of Afriart gallery signage
9. Close of Charlene Komuntale exhibition sign
10. Wide of exhibition
11. Pull out to mid of paintings
12. Close of Karungi
13. Mid of paintings
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Daudi Karungi, artist/curator, Afriart Gallery:
“In Uganda today, you have Ugandans also buying from that low-end price point, so we are talking anywhere from $100 (USD) to $500 (USD), $600 (USD), let's say below $1,000 (USD) you have Ugandans starting to do that because the middle class has grown, people have built houses, they have big walls that are gazing at them, so they have to fill those walls. So, that market used to be expatriates who were already aware of art and they were working at an embassy, or something, now those people, they are still there, but the Ugandan middle class has also kind of joined them.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kampala, Uganda - 29 November 2023
15. Various of Ugandan African art collector Linda Mutesi showing artworks
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Mutesi, collector of African art:
“You realise that there has been a sort of black hole of people taking from the continent, they keep taking, and I feel that we are approaching collection of art as an intervention. We are sort of safeguarding and saying, hey, let's not have this continue, let's not have the bleeding of these works and all this intellectual property leaving the continent, let's keep it here. I think that’s it majorly. It's us being awakened to the fact that we don’t keep anything of our artists here and now we must, and so we are doing all we can to do that.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kampala, Uganda - 28 November 2023
17. Various of Lillian Nabulime sculpting in her workshop
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Lillian Nabulime, Ugandan sculptor:
“Art is not only limited to painting and sculpture or ceramics. It's now taking on fashion, film, video. That means the range has grown. It has a wide range of concepts, so that means then the people are attracted to a wide range of artworks you can choose from.”
19. Various of Nabulime’s art pieces in her showroom
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Lillian Nabulime, Ugandan sculptor:
“More artists are selling, and I think more avenues for selling have also come up, like the social medias. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. All those artists can display their work and they sell. Yeah, the galleries are also doing better than ever before, so there is hope that art will sell.”
21. Wide of Lillian in her workshop
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