Happenings

At the Musée des Cultures Taurines de Nîmes (the Nîmes Bullfighting Museum), a town well known for its corridas and bullfights, gallery owner Olivier Larroque has curated an exhibition on the theme and importance of bovine creatures in traditional African art. The show presents nearly 100 works, some well known and others hitherto unseen, drawn from some thirty private European collections. The artistic production of some fifty cultures is represented and the exhibition offers explanations of the symbolic meanings of bovine depictions, which are widely seen on masks, statues, funerary posts, and objects of daily use. A 150-page catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Musée des Cultures Taurines
6 Rue Alexandre Ducros
30900 Nîmes
Tel: +33 04 66 36 83 77‎