ART in motion 34 ABOVE RIGHT: Reliquary guardian fi gure, obamba. Kota, Upper Ogooué, Gabon. Wood, brass, copper. H: 55 cm. To be offered at the Bourgogne Tribal Show. © Michel Gurfi nkel, Paris. BELOW LEFT: Taimen mask. Bhutan. 19th century. Wood, fi ber. To be offered at the Bourgogne Tribal Show. © Michel Gurfi nkel, Paris. BELOW MIDDLE: Poster for the Bourgogne Tribal Show, organized by Delvoyeurs. BELOW: Galerie Bruno Mory, which welcomes the Bourgogne Tribal Show. Besanceuil, Saône-et-Loire. © Bruno Mory. RECENT ACQUISITIONS Zurich—In keeping with its schedule over the last few years, Galerie Patrik Frölich of Zurich will mark the arrival of spring with an exhibition presenting its recent acquisitions. Art lovers who visit his gallery between now and April 2 will have the opportunity to discover objects from old private Swiss and British collections, including a fine Nigerian Mumuye figure and an Elema area brassard from the Papuan Gulf region of Papua New Guinea that was illustrated in the 1897 catalog of the Pitt Rivers Collection. BOURGOGNE TRIBAL SHOW Besanceuil—Support of the ideas of sharing, conviviality, and exchange that are so vital to the art trade is one of the objectives of the new Bourgogne Tribal Show, which will be held in Besanceuil in Saôneet Loire from May 26–29. It is being launched by a group of tribal art professionals composed of Laurent Dodier, Bruno Frey, Jacques Lebrat, and Anthony J.-P. Meyer and is being managed by the Delvoyeurs events production firm. This new tribal art fair is born of an idea that is as simple as it is audacious: to move away from the field’s traditional centers and out to the countryside, specifically to the area that is the base for contemporary art dealer and tribal art collector Bruno Mory, in order to discover the fine artworks there and, equally importantly, to take the time to talk to one another, to admire the region’s cultural patrimony, and, obviously, to partake of some of the finest wines of the world, which the region is justly famous for. As this issue goes to press, twenty dealers from Paris, Brussels, London, Amsterdam, and Nîmes have announced that they will participate, and the number of galleries taking part in this daring show is likely to continue to grow. So is the program of planned associated activities, which, apart from the thematic exhibits the dealers will show, include displays exploring the links between tribal art and Western sculpture, as well as guided tours. This will be an event to experience with all of one’s senses—at least that is what Tribal Art magazine intends to do as an active partner in this first-ever tribal art show to be held in Burgundy. ABOVE: Brassard. Elema, Orokolo Bay, Gulf Province, PNG. 19th century. Tortoise shell, fi ber, pigment. H: 14.5 cm. Ex W. D. Webster, Oxon; Pitt Rivers, Farnham. © Galerie Patrik Frölich.
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