On 27 July 2022, Emmanuel Macron landed at Cotonou airport, where he was received by the President of Benin, Patrice Talon, to visit the exhibition of works returned by France. Only reserve, Benin had also requested the restitution of the famous sculpture of the Gou God, a key piece of voodoo worship, incensed by Guillaume Apollinaire and the founding artists of Modernity such Picasso or Matisse. However, France, for the moment, did not accede t…
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On 27 July 2022, Emmanuel Macron landed at Cotonou airport, where he was received by the President of Benin, Patrice Talon, to visit the exhibition of works returned by France. Only reserve, Benin had also requested the restitution of the famous sculpture of the Gou God, a key piece of voodoo worship, incensed by Guillaume Apollinaire and the founding artists of Modernity such Picasso or Matisse. However, France, for the moment, did not accede t…