Magazines - Tribal Art Summer 2011

By Claude-Henri Pirat, specialist in the ancient art of Africa.

Introduction
For the third time, following shows on Mauritania in 1993 and Gabon in 1997, the Musée d’Aquitaine de Bordeaux is staging a major exhibition devoted to the traditional art of sub-Saharan Africa, titled Arts d’Afrique, Voir l’Invisible (The Arts of Africa: Seeing the Invisible), which is on view from March 21 through August 21. Drawing from the collections of the Musée du Quai Branly, the Musée Royal d’Afrique Centrale in Tervuren, the Musée d’Ethnographie de Neuchâtel, and the Musée Dapper, as well as those of a number of French, Belgian, and British collectors, the show brings together some 230 objects, many of which are hitherto unpublished.