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LEFT, TOP TO BOTTOM:
Jean Rouch, mourning scene
characteristic of the Fanti.
Gomoa Achiasi, Ghana,
1953–1955 expedition.
Fondation Jean Rouch.
© Fonds Jean Rouch, BnF, département
des Manuscrits, NAF 28464.
Jean Rouch, Hauka Hori,
ritual ceremony by geniuses
of strength and mechanical
civilization. Accra, Ghana,
1954.
Fondation Jean Rouch.
© Fonds Jean Rouch, BnF, département
des Manuscrits, NAF 28464.
Jean Rouch, Hauka Hori,
possession, Kumasi, Ghana,
1953–1955 expedition.
Fondation Jean Rouch.
© Fonds Jean Rouch, BnF, département
des Manuscrits, NAF 28464.
BELOW: Spirit spouse fi gure,
blolo bian.
Baule, Côte d’Ivoire.
Wood, pigment. H: 45 cm.
Fondation Dapper, Paris, inv. 0172.
© Archives Fondation Dapper.
Photo: Hughes Dubois.
Artists of Yesterday and Today
LE FRANÇOIS (MARTINIQUE)—When it closed its
public museum in Paris last June, the Dapper Foundation
promised to not abandon its mission of promoting
and supporting the African artistic patrimony.
True to its word, on January 21, 2018, it is opening
Afriques, Artistes d’hier et d’aujourd’hui (Africa - Artists
of Yesterday and Today) in Martinique, working in
partnership with the Clément Foundation. The choice
of venue was specific, since Caribbean culture is
deeply rooted in that of Africa, though it has evolved
independently since crossing the Atlantic. This
rare opportunity for Antilleans to reconnect
with their heritage continues through
May 7, 2018.
The exhibition features nearly 100 major
pieces from the Dapper collection.
MUSEUM NEWS
Photographic Dialog
PARIS—Through January 7, 2018, the Musée de
l’Homme is showing an exhibition titled Dialogue
photographique: Jean Rouch and Catherine de Clippel,
which offers an opportunity to compare views of
Africa by two photographers who were interested in
the same regions, cultures, and subjects, but at different
times. Jean Rouch’s photos were shot between
1946 and the 1970s while Catherine de Clippel’s were
taken this decade. Both present an Africa in a perpetual
state of movement. Rouch (1917–2004) was an
ethnologist, photographer, and filmmaker, who also
was a privileged and sensitive witness to the evolution
of African societies. His photos, which he often took
to document his ethnographic expeditions, depict a
variety of subjects including lion hunters, Songhay
magic in Niger, and Dogon subjects in Mali. De Clippel
is a photographer, documentary film director, and
producer. Her work is centered primarily on animist
practices both in rural and urban environments in Africa,
as well as in Brazil and Venezuela. The exhibition
has five thematic sections: Rituals and Possession,
Mourning, Traditional Hunting, Colonial Africa, and
Independence and Modernity.
LEFT: Seated fi gure. Kongo/Vili,
Republic of the Congo.
Wood, mirror, iron, pigment. H: 29 cm.
Collected in 1908 in Congo Brazzaville.
Fondation Dapper, Paris, inv. 2581.
© Archives Fondation Dapper. Photo:
Hughes Dubois.