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Galerie d'art tribal à Paris 
Tribal Art Gallery in Paris 

LUBA


Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à l'exposition
Luba 
9 septempre - 15 octobre 2022 
vernissage le jeudi 8 septembre de 18h à 21h 
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We're pleased to invite you to the exhibition 
LUBA 
September 9 - October 15 2022 
Opening reception Thursday, September 8 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM 

GALERIE L'OEIL ET LA MAIN 
41 rue de Verneuil 75007 Paris 
contact@agalom.com
+33 6 21 48 52 49 



Lobi Eleki Lobi Ekoya 
             Entre passé et futur

 La Galerie l'Oeil et la Main présente le jeune artiste contemporain congolais Romario Rolook Lukau pour sa première exposition à Paris. 

Vernissage le jeudi 16

Guro


Living among the Baule and Yaure west, the Malinke north and south wé and Bete. The Guro live in an area covered by savannah and forest. They migrated from the north during the XVI and is now number two hundred thousand, they were called but when Kweni were colonized between 1906 and 1912 the French invaders, gave them the name of Guro. Guro villages consist of round houses in the north and rectangular in the south. Each village is governed by a council of elders, representing each family, and secret societies. The Guru mainly grow cotton, rice, coffee and cocoa, men and women involved clearing plantations.

The Guro Art is an art and elegant masks consists mainly of elongated figures with a concave profile and almond eyes.


Masks:


Different types of masks can be noticed. In the western part of the country Guro masks have a pointed chin, a protruding mouth, almond-shaped eyes bulging and a high forehead sometimes decorated with scarification. They have an apotropaic function but are also worn by executioners during executions.

The southern style is influenced by that of the neighboring tribe, the Bete. Their masks are identifiable, thanks to their more naturalistic features, their scars on his forehead, triangular noses and eyes surrounded by incised scarification, they are sometimes called masks Guro-Bete

Another type of mask found in this region, has a bulging forehead, a snub nose

This is a copy of the catalogue of the exhibition of 1923 in Brooklyn Museum, In 1903 Stewart Culin became the founding curator of the department of ethnology at the museum of the Brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, now the Brooklyn museum Culin a self taught ethnologist built the foundation of four curatorial collections for the museum, acquiring objects representing African Asian native American and estaern European culture

Culin was among the first curator to recognize museum installation as an art form, he was also among the first to display ethnological as art objects, not as ethnographic specimens. This approach is evidenced in his exhibition “primitive negro art”

The exhibition opened in april 1923 and displayed African objects he had acquired in Europe from dealers. Along with his colleagues Culin set the parameters for cultural representation in museum through his collection decisions and innovative installations.

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This is a copy of the catalogue of the exhibition of 1923 in Brooklyn Museum, In 1903 Stewart Culin became the founding curator of the department of ethnology at the museum of the Brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, now the Brooklyn museum Culin a self taught ethnologist built the foundation of four curatorial collections for the museum, acquiring objects representing African Asian native American and estaern European culture

Culin was among the first curator to recognize museum installation as an art form, he was also among the first to display ethnological as art objects, not as ethnographic specimens. This approach is evidenced in his exhibition “primitive negro art”

The exhibition opened in april 1923 and displayed African objects he had acquired in Europe from dealers. Along with his colleagues Culin set the parameters for cultural representation in museum through his collection decisions and innovative installations.

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The group Ashanti are one of the ethnic groups of all Akan in Ghana.

They speak Twi is a dialect of Akan belonging to the Kwa group of languages.
Flag of the Ashanti


Geographical
Empire Asante in Ghana

Asante federation grows in the thirteenth century. Kumasi is the capital . In the nineteenth century, the civilization reached its peak and occupies nearly 70% of modern Ghana.

Torque dignitary ancestors Baoulé
Height 31cm, Width 16cm, 7cm thickness
Côte d'Ivoire
Wood, patina



time: XVIII-XIX century
Susan M. Vogel "Baule Art" Yale - 1997 - p.222
Similar piece
Catalog Calmels-Cohen Paris June-2004
Experts: MM.A of Monbrison and P. Amrouche
Reference: p.38.39.40

Wood, Plant fibers, bakélite.Magnifique representation of the couple together all the criteria
of Baule sculpture sitting on a stool exquisitely decorated
geometric patterns, the two characters are face.On Presumably it is a royal couple by the presence
very many scars, tattoos in the neck,
extremely elaborate hairstyles, typical Baule;
man sports a goatee as the attribute of the Egyptian gods
the stool is finely crafted with a remarkable precision in
the line and detail of ornamentation;
The attitude of the two characters, arms along the body, clears
an atmosphere of great wisdom and serenity.
Provenance: ex al. Armand.Auxietre
ex al. Michel

Who are the Baule?

About three million people living mainly in central Ivory Coast are defined as Baule. Yet after a closer study it semblairaient these men identify with villages or village clusters (ranging from 4 to 12) as an ethnic group. although the Baule ethnic reality remains msytérieuse can not be denying the existence of a style Baule. artists who use this style talk Baule and abroad their art is known as Baule for over a century.

Exhibition "African Hairstyles"

After the monographic exhibitions devoted to ethnic Mumuye and Bambara, the gallery's eye and the hand begins 2010 with an exhibition on the theme of the often overlooked African hairstyle. Often overlooked as belonging to the sphere of the arts "popular", hair is however of particular importance in Africa, both aesthetically and symbolically.

The hairstyle can both grow its appearance but also to affirm their identity or social status. Some hairstyles are immediately identifiable, such as hairstyling splayed Mangbetu of the Democratic Republic of Congo or the hairstyles solidified ocher Namibia. Others refer to a hierarchical system more complex. Ancient art, hair is also found in modern African art production, through paintings advertising kiosks hairdressers or barbers, or in African-American fashion. Both ornaments and symbols of identity, the hairstyles worn by different ethnic groups are reflected in their art. Although they represent gods or ancestors, masks and statues are the hairstyles of the living.

In Africa the hairstyle is still practiced by family members or trusted friends. In addition to the social aspects of the event, the hair, placed in the hands of enemies, could become an ingredient in the production of dangerous charms or "medicines" that could hurt their owners. Mostly it is women cap the women and men that cap men.

As scarification, hairstyles to identify gender, ethnicity, stage reached by the person in the cycle of life, status and personal taste. Scholars,

L'ART DES BAOULES
par Suzanne VOGEL

Les artistes baoulé de Côte d'Ivoire ont créé des objets d'une esthétique quasiment inégalée dans l'art africain traditionnel, que ce soit par leur raffinement, leur diversité, leur profusion et la somme de travail qu'ils représentent. Les masques et les statuettes des Baoulés, ont suscité l'engouement des Occidentaux dès leur découverte et ils sont considérés comme l'une des réussites les plus achevées de l'art africain, c'est pourquoi ces sculptures occupent toujours une place prépondérante dans toute exposition ou étude consacrée à l'Afrique. Pourtant, aussi importante que soit leur renommée en Occident, il n'a jamais été facile pour quiconque de voir les représentations de cet art sur les lieux mêmes de sa création, dans les villages baoulé. L'art baoulé est loin de se limiter aux masques relativement naturalistes et aux figures humaines taillées dans le bois, il comprend également une grande variété d'ouvrages en ivoire, en bronze et en or : de grands masques-heaumes représentant des animaux agressifs ou des figures simiesques, et divers objets offrant des myriades de motifs sculptés: des portes, des chaises et des tabourets, des tam-tams, des cuillères, des bâtons, des peignes, des éventails, des frondes, des bols et des assiettes, des poids, etc. Il faut également mentionner des poteries, des bijoux et des tissus, ornés de petites figures humaines ou animales. De manière paradoxale, dans l'ethnie baoulé, seul un nombre limité d'individus ont eu le privilège, toujours potentiellement dangereux, de pouvoir regarder une œuvre d'art, dans le passé comme dans le présent. Un simple coup

L'ART DES BAOULES
par Suzanne VOGEL

Les artistes baoulé de Côte d'Ivoire ont créé des objets d'une esthétique quasiment inégalée dans l'art africain traditionnel, que ce soit par leur raffinement, leur diversité, leur profusion et la somme de travail qu'ils représentent. Les masques et les statuettes des Baoulés, ont suscité l'engouement des Occidentaux dès leur découverte et ils sont considérés comme l'une des réussites les plus achevées de l'art africain, c'est pourquoi ces sculptures occupent toujours une place prépondérante dans toute exposition ou étude consacrée à l'Afrique. Pourtant, aussi importante que soit leur renommée en Occident, il n'a jamais été facile pour quiconque de voir les représentations de cet art sur les lieux mêmes de sa création, dans les villages baoulé.
L'art baoulé est loin de se limiter aux masques relativement naturalistes et aux figures humaines taillées dans le bois, il comprend également une grande variété d'ouvrages en ivoire, en bronze et en or : de grands masques-heaumes représentant des animaux agressifs ou des figures simiesques, et divers objets offrant des myriades de motifs sculptés: des portes, des chaises et des tabourets, des tam-tams, des cuillères, des bâtons, des peignes, des éventails, des frondes, des bols et des assiettes, des poids, etc. Il faut également mentionner des poteries, des bijoux et des tissus, ornés de petites figures humaines ou animales.
De manière paradoxale, dans l'ethnie baoulé, seul un nombre limité d'individus ont eu le privilège, toujours potentiellement dangereux, de pouvoir regarder une

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STRENGTH AND MEASUREMENT

The discovery of "primitive art": an art of strength
Shapes and shape functions
Deities and ancestors
The living wood

Force and Measurement

Develop an aesthetic of black Africa is seen as a risky business in many ways. Is it legitimate to isolate these objects, that today we call art, the general framework of their relations and their cultural constraints? Can we submit to a test that has never existed in the minds of their creators? And can we finally see in this art - if we 'take on this term - a uniform phenomenon, despite the wide variety of both regional and local styles we offer this huge continent, following lengthy Historical developments often poorly understood? Finally, remember that this approach excludes large regions, including Africa white, that is to say the Mediterranean area with its ancient history, the eastern and southern Africa whose pastoral peoples have given rise to cultures almost without images, and finally these hunting societies, which, even in our time have not passed the stage of evolution of prehistoric rock paintings which are the main evidence of an artistic production that appears at various points the continent. Similarly, we must exclude from our contribution to the aesthetics of black African art the old feudal societies, including Benin. Our discussion is therefore limited to large areas farmers, the true cradle of