Tribal Art Magazine March 2017 - Subscribe: http://www.tribalartmagazine.com/subscribe
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Maya. The Language of Beauty
From Oct 08 2016 to Mar 15 2017
The exhibition "Maya. The language of beauty " is an opportunity
to learn more about many aspects of the Maya, thanks to the latest
discoveries in the field of archeology.
Organized by Arthemisia Group and Kornice, made by the INAH (National
Institute of Anthropology and History), the most important institution
of the Ministry of Culture of Mexico, with the curatorship of Karina
Romero Blanco, the exhibition is the result of an emphasis on the
artistic aspects of the Mayan civilization. It will feature more than
250 artifacts (stone sculptures, monumental stelae, architectural
elements, terracotta figurines, vases, jade masks, necklaces, earrings,
musical instruments, incense burners, etc.) that will give visitors the
the ability to explore the artistic production of one of the most
fascinating civilizations of the pre-Columbian period, through a
universally important theme, that of beauty.
The exhibition is sponsored by the city of Verona with the Arena Museo
Opera support (AMO).
Main sponsor of the AGSM.
Native American Masterpieces from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection
From Oct 28 2016 to Mar 19 2017
New York’s Charles and Valerie Diker Collection is one of the most
outstanding and comprehensive private collections of its kind. With
artworks ranging in date from the second to the early 20th century, this
exhibition will explore important achievements by artists relating to
culturally distinct traditions from across the North American continent.
The works of art—carefully selected by the collectors and Met
curators—reflect the unique and innovative visions from these traditions
in a wide variety of aesthetic forms and media. Their presentation at
the Met this season celebrates the conclusion of their national tour as
part of the exhibition Indigenous Beauty, organized by the American
Federation of the Arts, and the return of the Diker Collection to New
York City.
The Huichol
From Feb 10 2017 to Mar 19 2017
Until March 19, 2017, Huicholes: A People
Walking Towards the Light will be presented at the Canadian
Museum of History, after which it will move to
the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto in April. The
exhibition examines the historical heritage and cultural
traditions of the Huichol, a people from western Mexico,
known worldwide for their magnifi cent yarn paintings
and beaded embroidery.
Rich in meaning, the artworks in the show reveal the
depth of the worldview of this Huichol, whose history
can be traced back some 15,000 years. Highlights include
a series of twenty-six paintings by artist and
shaman José Benítez Sánchez, various artifacts
such as fabrics and objects of worship, and
photographs that provide a rare window
into the lifestyle and spiritual
traditions of the Huichol.
Tefaf Maastricht
From Mar 10 2017 to Mar 19 2017
This is one appointment that the most
discriminating art collectors keep, and TEFAF Maastricht
promises to be more exciting than ever for tribal art. Good news, the
increasing representation of the arts of Africa, Oceania, Asia, and the
Americas continues in 2017 with the participation of the Parisian
dealer Bernard Dulon and New York–based dealer
Donald Ellis. Ellis will be showing a
beautiful Yupi’k mask from Alaska, formerly in the collection
of Robert Lebel, the famed art critic with close
ties to the Surrealists. Galerie Dulon will present, among
other things, an exceptional Hemba figure from the
Democratic Republic of Congo that connoisseurs will
recognize as the one that was recently exhibited at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and then at
the Rietberg Museum in Zurich as part of the Heroic Africans exhibition
of 2011–2012. These two newcomers
will join long-time participants Lucas Ratton, Bernard
de Grunne, Roberta and Lance Entwistle, and Anthony
Meyer. Tribal art in the “Showcase” portion of the fair will
be represented by Adrian Schlag, who will present an
exhibition on the subject of archetypes that will be accompanied
by a catalog.
Paris Art + Design
From Mar 22 2017 to Mar 26 2017
The art and design fair par excellence, PAD Paris will be held at
the Jardin des Tuileries March 22–26. This resolutely aesthetic event,
which is held in autumn in London and again in spring in the City of
Light, is an affirmation of a collecting experience rooted in the power
of form and the dialog between artistic styles. Three local Parisian
exhibitors will represent the realms of African and Oceanic art at this
year’s event: Galerie Afrique, Galerie Flak, and Galerie Lucas Ratton.
Tiki
From Sep 15 2016 to Mar 27 2017
The new exhibition of the Museum of Tahiti and the Islands
highlights an
emblematic object of the Marquesas islands : the tiki.
Researchers, experts, academics and local
players in the Marquesan culture have joined together
around an issue that is both simple and complex: What
is tiki ?
The polysemy of the word tiki makes it hard to
understand. Indeed, it can refer to both the anthropomorphic statue and
the pattern. But in an esoteric context, it refers to the phallus
joining the mythological dimension
linked to the first man, the personification of the male sex and
procreative power : Tiki.
The exhibition and the book that accompanies it will explore the
different meanings of
the word tiki around three axes - oral tradition, reason,
anthropomorphic statue. Ethnology,
linguistics, sociology, archeology will successively try to give the
tiki back its meaning and shed
light on the links that unite Tiki.
One hundred objects from the collections of the Museum of Tahiti and the
Islands, private
collections and Marquesas communities loans will be displayed in a
context that will offer a
different reading.
binoche et giquello : Important American Collection of Pre-Columbian Art Sale
From Mar 30 2017 to Mar 31 2017
Auctioneers Binoche et Giquello will offer a
group of Pre-Columbian works from a prestigious New
York collection on March 31. Terracotta sculptures from
ancient West Mexico will be particularly well represented,
and their high quality and modernist forms make this
an unusually cohesive group. Particularly well represented
are the Chupicuaro substyle as well as pieces from the
broader region of Nayarit, the latter notably represented
by a female birthing figure. A group of stone figures from
Guerrero will be offered with estimates ranging from
10,000 to 100,000 euros. Other highlights include a
small Maya jade pendant with a high estimate of 60,000
euros and an interesting group of ancient works from
Peru and Costa Rica. Some of the auction’s major pieces
will be familiar to inveterate enthusiasts, since they were
included in Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology
of the Unknown Past, a memorable exhibition from the
1990s shown first at the Art of Institute of Chicago and
then at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. They
can be seen again on Thursday, March 30, at the preview
for this auction.
Eclectic - a collection of the XXIth Century
From Nov 23 2016 to Apr 02 2017
Through the aesthetic and intellectual vision of the French
collector Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière, this exhibition investigates the
way a private collection builds itself in the XXIth Century.
What is the degree of subjectivity in the choices of a collector? Is it
possible, today, to build a collection without passion? Éclectique – Une
collection du XXIe siècle offers an insight in this process through the
discovery 40 artworks, mostly african, from Marc Ladreit de
Lacharrière's collection.
Fang, Baoulé, Dogon masterworks are displayed side by side with
classical works from other fields (greek ceramics, roman marbles,...)
reflecting the approach of the collector who only turned to
non-occidental art passed 2003, and who explains that the guiding
principle of his collection is emotion and dialog between civilisations.
From the Jourdain River to the Congo River - Art and Christianity in Central Africa
From Nov 23 2016 to Apr 02 2017
This exhibition traces 5 centuries of cultural mixing and
exchanges between kongo peoples of Central Africa and the christian
religion, which resulted in a unique production of objects such as
female Christs, saints figures with african features, necklaces with
crosses,...
In 1482, the Portuguese sailor Diego Cao discovers the mouth of the
Congo river and establish a contact with the large realm of Kongo. A
vast evangelistic campaign then starts. The exhibition presents a
hundreds of artworks inspired by the Christian religion and stemming
from european private and public collections. These items, often
surprising for an occidental eye, reflect the power relationships from
the colonial period until the XXth Century, and demonstrate the cultural
interpenetration at work.
The Laprugne Collection and property from various owners
Apr 04 2017
On April 4, Christie’s will hold a two-part sale in Paris.
Composed of seventy-nine lots with a total
estimated value of between 1,500,000 and 2,500,000 euros, the first part
of the sale will consist of the noted Laprugne Collection. The
selection of high-quality objects that Christie’s will offer includes a
remarkable group of seven Kota reliquary guardian figures. The Laprugne
Collection will be followed by a mixed sale of property of various
owners. In it will be a group of small-scale African works that are
likely to arouse a great deal of interest among collectors of
miniatures. Among the selection of fine masks from Africa and Oceania is
an example with particularly pure lines from the Sepik River
of Papua New Guinea, formerly in the André Lefèvre Collection.
Treasures of Oceanic Art
From Apr 04 2017 to Apr 07 2017
Aguttes auction house will offer the remarkable Oceanic art
collection of Rainer Werner “Jerry” Bock. This art connoisseur of
western German origin is also the owner of Splendors of the World
gallery. Following a ten-day preview, the sale will take place over four
sessions from April 4–7. The collection, which was assembled over a
twenty-five-year period, is composed of nearly 1,200 objects. On offer
will be what amounts to a true encyclopedia of Oceanic art, especially
from Polynesia and Micronesia. Masks, figures, ceremonial drums, model
boats, clubs, tapas, and fish hooks, and many other objects created
between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, will be offered. This
event will be documented by a multiple volume catalog that itself will
become collectible and will be an important reference for years to come.
Paris Tribal : from Wednesday 5 until Saturday 8 April
From Apr 05 2017 to Apr 08 2017
The fourth annual Paris Tribal will be held April 5–8 and this
year will have some interesting new developments. Without renouncing its
eminently Parisian identity, this year it will host several important
dealers from abroad, who will share the spaces of galleries permanently
established in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood. Bruce Frank from
New York will join Renaud Vanuxem, Joaquin Pecci from Brussels will
exhibit with Olivier Castellano, Michel Thieme from Amsterdam
will be with Alain Bovis, and Lance Entwistle will host David Serra from
Barcelona. Not only will this internationalize the event and attract
more foreign collectors, it will undoubtedly also turn the gallery
environment into a collaborative space rather than one focused on
individual endeavors.
Another innovation for this upcoming Paris Tribal will be its special
exhibition focused on forms and materials, which will open on April 3
and feature works for sale lent by dealers participating in the fair.
Mapuche: A Voyage to Lafkenche Territory
From Jan 18 2017 to Apr 23 2017
Mapuche. Voyage en terre lafkenche (Mapuche:
A Voyage to Lafkenche Territory) moves between
photography, anthropology, and ethno-botany. It is an
homage to the Mapuche people, originally from Chile,
whose name means “People of the Earth,” and it derives
from an encounter between an artists’ collective called
“Ritual Inhabitual” and the ethno-biologists at the Musée
de l’Homme, whose work is centered on the connections
between nature and man. On view from January
18–April 23, 2017, the show explores subjects like the
Mapuche’s cosmogony, their ritual practices, and their
knowledge of plants through the presentation photo
portraits and an herbarium. The photographs were all
made using the delicate collodion process, and they
show not only “traditional” communities but Catholics,
Evangelicals, and young people from the Santiago
suburbs as well. The collodion process is time intensive,
but makes it possible to produce a sense of timelessness
in the relationship between photographer and subject.
The herbarium features some thirty-five different kinds
of plants and illustrates the diversity of the region’s flora
and its multiple uses. The exhibition is a beautiful homage
to an autochthonous people that has suffered oppression
for a very long time and has lost ninety percent
of its lands over the course of the twentieth century.
