LEFT: Three cups with anthropomorphic motifs. Kuba, DR Congo. Wood. Galerie Philippe Ratton. BELOW LEFT: Lime spatula. New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago. 19th–early 20th century. Wood, beads, shell. H: 42.5 cm. Ex Marcia and John Friede. Galerie Alain Bovis. Photo: Vincent Luc. RIGHT: Woven rug. Tutsi, Rwanda. To be offered by Marcuson & Hall at Tribal Art London. LOWER RIGHT: Detail of the ornamentation on a model war canoe. Maori, New Zealand. To be offered by Adam Prout at Tribal Art London. TRIBAL ART LONDON London—The United Kingdom’s only fair devoted exclusively to non-European art will open on August 31, 2016, at Mall Galleries. For five days, until September 4, twenty-one exhibitors will present their finest material to what hopefully will be a large and interested audience. This year, the fair will feature four new participants, three of which are well known in Brussels—Marcuson & Hall, Ritual Gallery, and Visser Gallery—and the fourth from London—Raccanello Tribal Art. In addition to being the setting for showing art, Tribal Art London is also an opportunity to share enthusiasm and knowledge, a fact supported by an interesting series of lectures and other programming. LEFT: Shield, wunda. Western desert, Australia. 19th century. To be offered by Adam Prout at Tribal Art London. KUBA CONTAINERS Paris—From June 18–July 30, 2016, Philippe Ratton will present a thematic exhibition in his gallery on Rue Bonaparte dedicated to the containers produced by the skilled hands of the artists of the Kuba kingdom in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sculpted with as much care and attention to detail as is given to fi gures and masks, these objects are among the most remarkable of the Kuba’s artistic creations, and they have been sought after by collectors since the end of the nineteenth century. The exhibition will feature palm wine cups, the most artistically developed of which take the form of a human head and are characterized by beautifully executed geometric designs. Several sculpted horns, also intended for use by the elite, will be presented as well. A group of wooden boxes for cosmetics, intended for holding the red powder known as twoolx or tukula, will complete the selection SHAPES AND ABSTRACTIONS Paris—From June 2–July 9, 2016, Galerie Alain Bovis will present an exhibition that, as its title suggests, will highlight a group of works from Africa, Asia, and Oceania, the forms of which eschew the mimicry of nature and instead pursue the sculptural art of abstraction in a free and intuitive manner reminiscent of the visual language of Western modern art. ART in motion
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