BELOW: Offi cial photograph from FESMAN: Installatin of the L’art nègre exhibition. Donated by Jean Mazel. PANAFEST archive collection. MQB, from the Dakar 66 exhibition. FAR RIGHT, TOP TO BOTTOM: Poster for the Persona exhibition. MQB, Persona exhibition. 54 TEN YEARS OF EXCELLENCE Paris—Tribal art lovers will remember June 23, 2006, as the day that the doors opened at the long-awaited Musée du Quai Branly, heralding the potential for “new dialogs between cultures.” Ten years later, the success of this endeavor can be gauged by the presentation of some eighty-seven temporary exhibitions, the inauguration of new exhibition spaces (most notably the Atelier Martine Aublet and the Boite Arts Graphiques), and a host of other highly successful ventures. Not surprisingly, the museum plans to mark its tenth anniversary year with a varied and interesting program of events. Here we will discuss just the exhibitions scheduled for the spring season, of which there are fi ve. The fi rst of these is Persona, étrangement humain (Persona: Strangely Human). This interesting exhibition is on view on the West Mezzanine until November 13, 2016, and explores the strategies that all human beings, regardless of culture or period, use to conceive objects. A selection of works of all kinds—statues, masks, robots, machines, amulets, marionettes, and many other “strange humans”—supports the theme. Three more concurrent exhibitions are on view until May 15, 2016. Dakar 66, chroniques d’un festival panafricain (Dakar 66: Chronicles of a Pan-African Festival) will be held at the Atelier Martine Aublet and commemorates the fi ftieth anniversary of the fi rst Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres (FESMAN) (World Festival of Black Arts) in Dakar, which ran from April 1–24, 1966, under the direction of President Léopold Sédar Senghor. A cultural event unprecedented in Africa, it brought together great names of the Négritude movement, such as Aimé Césaire, Duke Ellington, Wole Soyinka, and Josephine Baker. Dakar 66 is more than just a chronicle of FESMAN. It examines the cultural and political issues that surrounded the event, particularly through the light shed on them by the visuals that recorded them, whether photographs, publications, or videos. The second of these exhibitions is titled Chamanes et divinités de l’Équateur précolombien (Shamans and Divinities of Pre-Columbian Ecuador). It presents an entirely different universe. Curated by Santiago Ontaneda Luciano, this exhibition, unprecedented in Europe, looks at the world of the spirits of ancient Ecuador by focusing on the emblematic fi gure of the shaman, the intermediary between man and the supernatural. With interpretation based on research and archaeological digs conducted by Ecuadorian experts, the show presents more than 260 major artifacts, ABOVE: Divination instrument, galukoji. Pende, DR Congo. MQB, Persona exhibition. © MQB. Photo: Claude Germain. BELOW: Spoon, wakemia. Dan, Côte d’Ivoire. MQB, Persona exhibition. © MQB. Photo: Claude Germain. Poster for FESMAN by Senegalese artist Ibrahima Diouf. MQB, Dakar 66 exhibition. Offi cial photograph from FESMAN: Léopold Sédar Senghor and André Malraux. PANAFEST archive collection. MQB, from the Dakar 66 exhibition. Offi cial photograph from FESMAN. Donated by Jean Mazel. PANAFEST archive collection. MQB, from the Dakar 66 exhibition.
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