ART in motion DIALOGUE New York City—Tambaran Gallery is presenting a different 22 sort of exhibition under the title Dialogue, a group show consisting of works in a variety of media by eleven contemporary artists, together with a selection of tribal African art from the Tambaran Gallery collection. Artists Firelei Baez, Walker Evans, Angela Freiberger, Yashua Klos, Glendalys Medina, Christophe de Menil, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Jim Skull, Virginia Inés Vergara, Fred Wilson, and Robert Wilson are featured in an installation in which both contemporary and tribal artworks are formed into pairings and groupings intended to stimulate viewers to construct unexpected dialogs. Curators Yulia Topchiy and Virginia Inés Vergara note that “While our contemporary artists are often inspired by African art, that does not work both ways. Nevertheless, concepts about making and meaning overlap across cultures, and these prove to be more fundamental than influence.” Dialogue can be seen at Tambaran until January 25, 2014. DAWSON GALLERY Chicago—In November 2013, noted tribal art dealer Douglas Dawson relocated his eponymous Chicago gallery from its home for the past ten years in Chicago’s West Loop to a new space in the historic Santa Fe Building at 224 South Michigan Avenue in the city’s downtown area. While smaller in size than the large West Loop space that featured an outdoor sculpture garden, the new Douglas Dawson Gallery has a coveted location in a large commercial building listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Commensurate with the move from a very large gallery to a more intimate one, the first thematic exhibition at the new gallery, Scaled Down: The Power of Small, explores “smallness and the power that it can evoke,” according to Dawson. On view until December 21, 2013, it features what for the gallery has become a characteristic cross-cultural collection that spans more than 20,000 years and includes neolithic stone, ancient terracotta, medieval bronzes, and historic wooden artifacts from Africa, Asia, and ancient America. We wish Doug all the best in his new digs. Far left: Ritual insignia. Baga, Guinea. Wood, pigment. Italian private collection. © Galerie Dandrieu-Giovagnoni, Rome. Left: Mask. Kwame, DR Congo. Wood. French private collection. © Galerie Dandrieu-Giovagnoni, Rome. Middle: Chicago art dealer Douglas Dawson. Photo courtesy of Douglas Dawson Gallery. Bottom: Interior views of the Schiller Art Gallery. © Nicolas Clobert. FESTIVALS AND RITUALS Rome—From December 2–20, Galerie Dandrieu-Giovagnoni will present an exhibition titled Feste e Rituali (Festivals and Rituals) that will consist of approximately twenty African masks and sculptures used on festive occasions and in traditional ceremonies. Visitors can be swept away by the vibrant colors of a Guinean Baga insignia, used at ceremonies held during the rice harvest, and admire the austere beauty of a mask from the Kwame people, who inhabit an area near that of the Lega in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Other works, such as an Angolan Mbunda mask and a Nigerian Mama mask, will complete the selection. A NEW GALLERY FOR THE SABLON Brussels—This past April, Sablon gallerygoers were treated to the opening of the Schiller Art Gallery in a sumptuous residential building, classified as a historical monument and designed by architect Jan Baes, at 12 Rue van Moer. The new space is intended to serve as a meeting place for aficionados and as a confluence between two aesthetic universes, those being tribal and modern art. The latter will be explored through the presentation of works by wellknown Belgian artists. For tribal art, there will be no boundaries. Pieces from anywhere and everywhere in the world may be shown, depending on what gallery owner Jean- Marc Desaive turns up.
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