lobi La galerie Maine Durieu vous invite au vernissage le jeudi 11 février 2016 à partir de 17 heures À la faveur de l’exposition, le texte de Maine Durieu L’Arbre et la statuaire Lobi (1978) sera édité. 7 rue Visconti 75006 Paris 01 43 26 82 52 / 06 26 14 90 53 PARIS TRIBAL Paris—Early this year, plans were announced 38 for the third installment of this multi-venue Paris Tribal fair produced by the dealers in Paris’ Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood. It will be held from April 7–10 this year, but specific information about its participants and specific themes was not yet available as this issue went to press. We encourage our readers to visit the event’s website, www.paristribal.com, as the time for the event draws closer. TWENTIETH PAD SHOW FOR FLAK Paris—The twentieth PAD (Paris Art + Design) show will be held March 31– April 3, 2016, but this year only one tribal art gallery will participate. Galerie Flak has been involved in this event since its beginning and has impressed visitors with its selection of African, Oceanic, and Native North American artworks, whose sculptural conception and often vibrant colors can be integrated so effectively into contemporary interior design. Here, these objects from distant places and peoples become symbols of taste and modernity. Examples that make this point are an elegant Aduma Obamba mask from Gabon, with its alternating black, white, and brown planes, and a harmoniously balanced Kota reliquary figure collected in Gabon in 1929, both of which Galerie Flak will exhibit at PAD. LEFT: Mask. Aduma- Obamba, Gabon. Wood, pigment. H: 40 cm. Ex J.-C. Andrault. © Galerie Flak. LOBI ART AND MAINE DURIEU Paris—Anyone who has ever been in Maine Durieu’s gallery knows what a limitless love this dealer, who left us nearly a year ago now, had for Lobi art. It was the subject of her first exhibition and will also be the subject of this last one in her name. Currently on view in her space at 7 Rue Visconti, Lobi presents a group of moving sculptures, brimming with life, and includes a number of pieces from her personal collection. These are accompanied by her unpublished 1978 book, L’arbre et la statuaire Lobi (The Tree and Lobi Statuary). In keeping with this touching memorial, we present a short essay by her daughter, Laurence Durieu, about Entre les lignes (Between the Lines), the exhibition on which Maine was working in 2015 when she departed to join the ancestors, but which was nonetheless realized at the most recent Parcours des Mondes. Parcours With and Without You By Laurence Durieu Some entered the gallery with trepidation, their eyes red, each of them stunned and speechless at Maine Durieu’s incomprehensible absence. But then they marveled at the splendor of the forms, imbued with “the subterranean and astral forces of the universe,” and with the beauty of the objects from all over the world that my mother had assembled to show at this Parcours. She had no way of knowing that it would be her last. Her gallery at 7 rue Visconti, in which “her elegant and original taste impregnated everything, from the most majestic objects to the smallest bits of metalwork in which her unique eye detected beauty ABOVE: Invitation for the Lobi exhibition at Galerie Maine Durieu, Paris. LEFT: Julien Flak. LEFT: Reliquary guardian fi gure. Kota, Gabon. Wood, brass. H: 40 cm. Collected before 1929 in the Kota region by colonial administrator M. Lagarde. © Galerie Flak. ART in motion
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