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Hellmuth Rossler had for the longest time only associated East African art with curios and tribal art until the early 1990s when he was exposed to contemporary art from the region.

Thereafter, Ruth Schaffner of Gallery Watatu convinced him and his wife, Erica Rossler-Musch, that there was so much of contemporary art in the region besides the usual sculptures, which most casual observers associate with East Africa, or that ‘real’ modern African art was only in West Africa.