National Gallery, London: Caravaggio in Cameroon Marc Padeu and Jennifer Sliwka in conversation

Detail from Marc Padeu, 'Le souper a Penja', 2019. Credit: Marc Padeu

Artist Marc Padeu lives and works in Cameroon. Intriguingly, his monumental paintings – exploring tender and complex relationships between family, friends, lovers and working communities – often draw on Italian Baroque compositions and especially those of Caravaggio. 

in this talk, Marc Padeu joins Dr Jennifer Sliwka, specialist in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art. Her research explores how 17th-century painters developed innovative approaches to religious painting, imbuing their works with an immediacy, power, and dynamism. 

Together, the speakers will take Padeu’s 'Le Souper a Penja' and its relationship to Caravaggio’s 'Supper at Emmaus' as a jumping-off point for conversation, exploring Padeu’s wider interest and understanding of historical works, his adoption and adaptation of the visual language of the Baroque and how these inform his evocations of contemporary life in Cameroon.

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