THREE CONTINENTS New York—Pace Primitive’s latest exhibition, Fine Sculpture from Three Continents: Africa, Asia, and Oceania, is one of the highlights of African-art-related auctions and exhibitions in New York City this autumn. On view until December 19, the exhibition is more than sculptures from West and Central Africa, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, India, and New Ireland. Within the installation, the work of physically disparate artists who delineate their ideas of beauty in stone, wood, and metal are arranged to complement and contrast one another. A fifteenth-century Sapi stone spirit head, mahen yafe, from Sierra Leone, for example, conveys noble, idealized beauty representing the best of this relatively little-known sculptural genre. Nearby, an eleventh-century Khmer head of Buddha Sakyamuni is another fine, impressive, and sensitive portrait in stone that elicits thoughtful comparisons. ART in motion SAN FRANCISCO IN FEBRUARY San Francisco—More than eighty of the world’s top tribal art specialists will once again showcase art, jewelry, antiques, and accessories from the most remote areas on the planet at the twenty-ninth annual San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show, held February 6– 8, 2015, at Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion. Ranging from galleries that have been doing business for generations to dealers who launched their careers collecting in the field, the artwork offered here is always stimulating and represents some of the best to be found in North America. The gala opening reception on the evening of February 5 benefits the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and is a not-to-be-missed event that allows first access to the wide-ranging treasures that the show presents. San Rafael—Two weekends later, The Marin Show: Art of the Americas celebrates its thirty-first year as the world’s leading show specializing in the art and culture of indigenous peoples from North, Central, and South America. Featuring more than 100 dealers, this event showcases a unique combination of antique Native American, Pre-Columbian, Spanish Colonial, and contemporary American Indian art that attracts top dealers, passionate collectors, artists, and the culture-curious from across the world. Open to the public February 21 and 22, the event’s preview reception on the evening of February 20 will benefit Homeward Bound of Marin. Right: Mask, tatanua. New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Wood, fiber, textile, pigment. To be offered by Patrick Mestdagh, Belgium, at the 2015 San Francisco Tribal and Textile Arts Show. Below: Mask. Iban, Borneo. Early 19th century. Wood. To be offered by Louis Nierijnck, the Netherlands, at the 2015 San Francisco Tribal and Textile Arts Show. Right: Painted textile panel, Chancay, Peru. AD 1100–1450. To be offered by Art for Eternity, New York, at the 2015 San Francisco Tribal and Textile Arts Show. Below and left: Installation views of Three Continents: Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Images courtesy of Pace Primitive, New York.
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