25 AAB BAAF BRUNEAF 7-11 June 2017 - Sablon, Brussels www.cultures.brussels T H E W O R L D A R T S F A I R AD Cultures 2017 - Arts et culture.indd 1 21/03/17 15:52 LEFT: Poster for the 2017 Cultures art fair in Brussels. June 7–11, 2017. BELOW LEFT: Standing figure. Luba, DR Congo. Congo Gallery. BELOW: Grainary door. Dogon, Mali. Late 19th–early 20th century. Galerie Olivier Larroque. LEFT: Male figure. Tabwa, DR Congo. Wood. H: 36 cm. Finality Without End, Ancienne Nonciature. RIGHT: Amulet. Lower Sepik, Papua New Guinea. 19th century. Wood. H: 20.5 cm. Collected by Otto Finsch before 1897. Ex Königlichen Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin; Arthur Speyer, Eltville; Ralph Nash, London; The Jolika Collection (Marcia and John Friede), Rye. Finality Without End, Ancienne Nonciature. L’ancienne nonciature Cultures 2017 BRUSSELS—The event resulting from the merging of three long-time Brussels art fairs—BRUNEAF, BAAF, and AAB—will this year be held again under the name Cultures: The World Arts Fair. From June 7–11, 2017, the Sablon neighborhood will host sixty-fi ve international dealers specializing in the arts of Africa, Oceania, the Americas, and Asia, as well as in Mediterranean and European antiquities. Each will present fi ne works that attest to their taste and high standards. This year’s event, much awaited by art afi cionados, will benefi t from the efforts and energy of a new committee for BRUNEAF, the largest of the three member organizations. With Alexandre Claes as its secretary and Thomas Bayet as its treasurer, the recently formed committee chaired by dealer Serge Schoffel. We wish them much success with their leadership of this emblematic organization. Several thematic exhibitions have been announced in the tribal art fi eld within Cultures. Galerie Didier Claes, for example, will focus on Lega art, and more specifi cally on bitungwa objects, which are sculpted for use in the last stages of the initiation rituals of the Bwami Society, the culture’s central sociopolitical institution. Galerie David Serra, also active in the African art fi eld, will stage a show of ere ibeji of varying styles, drawn primarily from the notable Dos and Bertie Winkel Collection. Exhibitions featuring Oceanic art will include Aboriginal Signature’s presentation, titled Spiritual Essence of the Earth, which will celebrate the talent of the artists of the Australian Aboriginal community of Warmun in the Kimberley region, located on the border of the desert. Once again this year, the public will have the opportunity to attend an ambitious program of lectures presented within the framework of Fine Art Connoisseur. The elegant Ancienne Nonciature event space will again host a thematic exhibition consisting of some thirty works mainly from the Congo, Gabon, Côte d’Ivoire, and New Guinea. True masterpieces in the corpora they derive from, these objects all illustrate the concept of “fi nality without end,” a notion developed by Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Judgement, which serves as the title of the exhibition. ART IN MOTION
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