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24 WINTER BRUNEAF Brussels—From January 20–24, the Sablon neighborhood will host the annual Winter BRUNEAF, a more intimate version of the well-known multiple-venue Brussels summer event. An annual event since January of 2011, it is also the fi rst show of its kind in the calendar year. More than thirty exhibitors from a variety of countries will be on hand to offer a wide variety of arts and antiquities to collectors and afi cionados. Once again this year, the arts of Africa will be the best represented, thanks to the continuing fascination with the art of the African continent held by many members of Belgian society engendered by that country’s colonial past. The arts of Oceania and Asia will also be prominent, making the fair appealing to anyone interested in tribal art. The Winter BRUNEAF will be held concurrently with another major event in Brussels, the Brussels Antiques and Fine Arts Fair, which opens to the public on January 23. The combination of the two events will undoubtedly encourage visitor crossover and lead to a promising quality of synergy. BELOW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Zoomorphic slit drum. Yangere, Ubangi Region, Central African Republic. Early 20th century. Wood, upholstery tacks. L: 116 cm. To be offered by Jacques Germain at BRAFA. Photo: Hughes Dubois. Mask, karan-wemba. Mossi, Burkina Faso. Wood, pigment, leather. H: 95 cm. To be offered by Olivier Larroque at Winter BRUNEAF. Photo: Hughes Dubois. Helmet mask, bongo. Kuba, RDC. 19th century. Wood, pigment, encrusted patina. H: 39 cm. To be offered by H. Kellim Brown, African Sculpture, at Winter BRUNEAF. Photo: Paul Louis. LEFT: Heyena mask, suruku. Bamana, Mali. 19th century. Wood. H: 53 cm. Ex J. J. Klejman, New York. To be offered by Yann Ferrandin at BRAFA. RIGHT: Mask. Grebo, Liberia. 19th century. H: 36 cm. To be offered by Serge Schoffel at BRAFA. Photo: Frédéric Dehaen. BRAFA Brussels—Well established and recognized as one of the most important art and antiquities fairs worldwide, BRAFA (the Brussels Art Fair) has, along with TEFAF in Maastricht, in recent years become one of the two bestattended generalist events for collectors and for tribal art galleries. This year it will be held January 23–31, 2016, at its usual Tour & Taxis venue. Galerie Mermoz and Galerie Deletaille will both be there offering Pre-Columbian art, and the arts of Africa, Asia, and Oceania will be well represented thanks to the participation of many Belgian galleries, including the Grusenmeyer Gallery, Galerie Pierre Dartevelle, Galerie Sarah de Monbrison, and Claes Gallery, as well as Serge Schoffel. The latter has presented a series of thematic exhibitions focused on specifi c bodies of works at BRAFA in years past, but this time will present a more general selection of works, conceived of as a voyage through the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, with seven stops along the way. Offering mostly African art, the Parisian galleries of Yann Ferrandin, Bernard Dulon, and Schoffel de Fabry will be showing, as will Jacques Germain from Montreal. Together the participation of all of these dealers will represent tribal art at BRAFA, lending a decidedly international dimension to the event.


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