Duende's stories attract our readers' attention since 2013 (previously hosted on brunoclaessens.com) and wishes to provide a useful resource for information on art of the African continent and its diaspora. Stories include exhibition announcements and reviews, interviews with artists, discoveries, new research, auction news, etc.
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Our mask on view this week at the PAN art Fair in Amsterdam -
Female bust, Anonymous Pende artist. Early 20th century, D.R. Congo. Wood, 63 cm. Provenance: Private collection, Belgium -
Installation view UNSETTLED. -
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Book Launch: UNÛ - Prestigious African Weapons, Brussels, February 19th
Paris Book Launch UNÛ - Wednesday, March 9th
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Portrait of Herzekiah-Andrew Shanu, probably dating from his trip to Europe in 1894. Image courtesy of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren (HP.1965.14.246). -
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Image courtesy of Woolley and Wallis. -
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William O. Oldman holding a Rarotongan staff god figure. Image courtesy of Robert Hales. -
Baule mouse oracle (gbekre-sè). Photographed by Martin Lippmann (who accompanied Hans Himmelheber), 1935. Image courtesy of: Frobenius Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (#EBA-B 02563). -
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Image courtesy of Boris Kegel-Konietzko, 1959. -
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Byeri, 2013. Image courtesy of Ingrid Baars. -
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Various Dan, Mano, Bassa, Toma, Kpelle (and others) miniature masks from Liberia and Ivory Coast. On loan to the Yale University Art Gallery from the James J. Ross collection. Image: BC, November 2009. -
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Bango spoon. Ivory. Height: 19,8 cm. The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1968. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (#1978.412.704). -
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In case you hadn’t seen the film yet, somebody was so kind to upload it to Youtube (with English subtitles). ‘Bulgy eyes’ is in it.
If you want to know more about the movie and the objects featured in it, try to find a copy of the excellent book Ode au grand art africain. Les Statues meurent aussi. (Primedia, 2010). By the way, I helped to find several of those pieces back.
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Fisher-women in the Maldives displaying cowries which have been exhumed from a burial pit, washed and laid out to dry (photo by Jan Hogendorn). -
Air Mountain, Niger. Man with necklace, tight fitting clothes and possible sticks in hands. “Bash’ marks on side of rock suggest rock gong. Horse Period. (image courtesy of David Coulson) Air Mountain, Niger. Man with necklace, tight fitting clothes and possible sticks in hands. “Bash’ marks on side of rock suggest rock gong. Horse Period. (image courtesy of David Coulson) -
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