MUSEUM NEWS
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BELOW: Vessel, ashko. Algeria.
First half of the 20th century.
Terracotta, pigment. H: 27 cm.
Ex Musée de l’Homme, Thérèse Rivière
expedition.
Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac,
inv. 71.1940.8.142.
The Rivet Generation
PARIS—The Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac is
honoring the central role played by Paul Rivet (1876–
1958) in the institutionalization of French ethnology
through a special exhibition titled Ethnologues, missions
et collections dans les années 1930 (Ethnologists, Missions,
and Collections in the 1930s) in the Atelier Martine
Aublet. Between 1928 and 1938, the field of ethnology
became an independent discipline, and during this
tumultuous decade, it spearheaded a new humanism.
Rivet was a vital part of this process and did everything in
his power to train a new generation of ethnologists. This
homage to him will be on view until January 28, 2018.
In addition to the Peru Before the Incas exhibition,
which is the subject of an in-depth article by Santiago
Uceda in this issue, the Quai Branly will host an exhibition
called Peintures des lointains (Paintings from Afar)
beginning on January 30, 2018. In it, two hundred paintings
and prints from the museum’s collection will trace
the evolution of Western perception of foreign peoples,
societies, and territories over the centuries.
The Les forêts natales, Arts de l’Afrique équatoriale
atlantique (In Their Native Forests - Arts of Atlantic
Equatorial Africa) exhibition, which was the subject of
an in-depth article in Tribal Art magazine’s issue 85, will
close on January 21, 2018.
RIGHT: Headdress of a shaman,
uwishin. Shuar, Amazon region,
Ecuador. 20th century.
Claire and Robert Steichen Collection.
© Musée L.
BELOW LEFT: Installation view of the new
permanent African installation at the Musée L.
Photo: J.-P. Bougnet.
BELOW: Thérèse Rivière in Ouled
Abderrahman, Douar Tadjmout. 1935.
Photo by Jacques Faublée.
Print on baryta paper.
Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, inv. 70.2005.28.5727.
Musée L
LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE—The new museum of the Université
Catholique de Louvain, the Musée L, opened
its doors on November 18, 2017. Its intent is to create
dialogs between artworks of different periods, cultures,
and techniques in its various areas of specialization. The
new installation highlights the museum’s non-European
collection, which include 2,800 works from around the
world. Its African collection, which includes some 700
pieces, is the most significant element of this.
The museum’s African collection dates to 1909, as the
Belgian colonization of the Congo was getting underway.
With the help of several missionary orders, Edouard de
Jonghe, a professor of ethnology and of Congolese studies,
brought back hundreds of objects from his expeditions
to the region. This collection was shared with the
Université Catholique when the university split in 1968.
It was enlarged through a number of gifts, the two most
important being that of Dr. Charles Delsemme and the
collection of anthropologist and psychiatrist Robert Steichen
in 2013. The Delsemme Collection is used to create
a dialog with modern art in the new Musée L installation,
while the Steichen material, which is of a more anthropological
nature, provides context.