Un set of mbembe-tigong votive figures from Cameroon which form, with fixed eyes and open lips, an incredibly lively wooden choir. A disturbing uli sculpture from New Ireland which was once the property of André Breton. An amusing little Olmec character in terracotta, a figurehead from the Solomon Islands, very beautiful Dogon masks, of course, and a Shinto male divinity, evoking, calmly seated cross-legged, 15th century Japane century. From September 10, the walker of the 6 e arrondissement of Paris will have this kind of mysterious encounter in the galleries of the Beaux-Arts district, as if a whole world of art objects and sacred figures from distant lands and sometimes very ancient times had gathered there, like the surrealists once did in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
Mysterious. Ochre terracotta with white kaolin slip, Olmec culture, Mexico, 1000-800 BC.
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Created in 2002, the Salon hors les murs Parcours des mondes is today, without a doubt, the largest global event devoted to so-called extra-European arts. “Every year, we attract an international audience of knowledgeable collectors, museum curators, art market professionals and an ever-increasing number of curious people who may one day enter into collecting as others enter into religion,” says lawyer Yves-Bernard Debie, who has been running the event for four years. A loyal visitor to the Salon […] Read more
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