MUSEUM news 58 TOP RIGHT: Guillaume Delisle, Mappemonde à l’usage du Roy (World Map for the King’s Use). Musée du Nouveau Monde de La Rochelle. © Max Roy. ABOVE CENTER: Vessel. Nazca, Peru. Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer. ABOVE: Mask. Origin unknown. 19th century. Private collection. © Nicolas Bruant. LEFT: Tiki. Marquesas Islands. Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer. © Xavier Nicostrate. RIGHT: Coco Fronsac, La sauterelle aux Buttes Chaumont (The Grasshopper of Buttes Chaumont). Artist’s collection. All rights reserved. DEVILS AND GODS Tanlay—Les diables et les dieux (The Devils and the Gods), on view at Château de Tanlay until September 20, creates a dialog between contemporary art and traditional works from non-Western cultures. Its approach is simple but sincere, and it uses curiosity as an engine to explore works that share a “savage” inspiration. Without the imposition of any cultural hierarchy, the works of Bengt Lindström, Barthélémy Toguo, Coco Fronsac, and Cyprien Tokoudagba are confronted with some fi fty pieces from traditional cultures of Africa, Oceania, and the Himalayas to form a lively aesthetic conversation that is lighter in tone than the exhibition’s title might suggest SENUFO Montpellier—From November 28, 2015, through March 6, 2016, the Musée Fabre will host the superb exhibition titled Senufo, Art et identité en Afrique de l’Ouest (Senufo, Art and Identity in West Africa), previously shown at the Cleveland Museum of Art and then at the Saint Louis Art Museum (see Tribal Art magazine, Spring 2015). This is the most important retrospective devoted to Senufo art since the 1963 exhibition at the Museum of Primitive Art in New York, and afi cionados in the south of France will now have the opportunity to relish the selection of high-quality objects that express the creativity of an amorphous people who are spread out over parts of Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, and Burkina Faso. Whether intended for use by the Poro society, in divination or healing rites, or associated with everyday activities, ornamentation, or dress, the works in the exhibition unveil the wealth and diversity of a cultural area whose borders we are now learning were more porous and less well defi ned than had long been assumed. NEW WORLDS Boulogne-sur-Mer—Located on the French coast just south of Calais, Boulogne-sur-Mer has traditionally been a town of seafarers and adventurers, and its fi ne museum collection has been enriched over time by the donations that many of these colorful fi gures have made to it. Nouveaux Mondes (New Worlds), on view until September 21, honors these donors, who, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, traveled the world’s seas in search of unknown lands and peoples. The exhibition focuses on the voyages themselves (the risks involved in these expeditions, the ships, and life on board them), as well as on the infl uences and cultural pressures associated with them (evangelization, the evolution of beliefs, and the transformation of styles), and it decrypts the notion of the “savage,” which these travelers brought home to Europe with them and related to their countrymen. With more than 130 objects including drawings, travel journals, paintings, maps, and traditional indigenous sculptures, drawn from Boulogne-sur-Mer collections, as well as from those of many other French museums, the exhibition provides an opportunity to consider the legacy of these expeditions, which helped build Western understanding of the world and the peoples in it.
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