CHEVAL ET CAVALIER DANS L’ART D’AFRIQUE NOIRE

Description

The exhibition “Horse and rider in the art of black Africa” offers a journey in West Africa mainly. The works have about the horse and rider, and even other horses and other riders. These wooden objects, brass, silver, iron from various nations; they were selected with a requirement for their aesthetic qualities, for their originality, for seniority and for cultural burden they represent. The catalog of the exhibition, explains and comments each object and reproduces any exhibits while discovering the culture and history of the main ethnic groups grouped Bambara, Dogon, Senufo, Bobo, Bwa, Mossi, Gurunsi (Nunuma, Nuna, Winiama, Lela) Tussian, Lobi, Baga, Nalu, Malinke – Akan (Ashanti, Baule), Dan, Fon, Guro, Yohure, Ewe, Nago – Yoruba, Edo – Mambila, Mama, Ogoni, Ibo – Bornu Dakakari – Kotoko – Tikar Bamun. It has three parts: two large divisions geographies, the Sahel and the coastal zone – the large number of small brass objects that justified a spécfique section in Catalogue- and other frames, not horses, and other riders who are not men. This richly illustrated a color iconography, brings together exceptional pieces from private collectors, most never presented before, all of which reflect the essential role of the horse in the cultures and societies of West Africa, the Sahel to the Gulf of Guinea.