ABOVE: Stele fi gure of an
owl. Valdivia, Chile. 3500–
1500 BC.
Volcanic tuf. 29.8 x 18.5 cm.
P. Janssen-fArts Collection, Antwerp.
P. Janssen-Arts Collection, MAS,
inv. IB.2010.017.251.
Photo © Hugo Maertens, Bruges.
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BUILDING COMMUNITY
Iowa City—The Stanley Museum at the University of
Iowa is marking its fi ftieth anniversary in 2019. Unfortunately,
2018 also marks the ten-year anniversary of
the fl ood that destroyed the museum’s building but,
fortunately, not its collection. An exhibition on view
in the museum’s temporary quarters in the Iowa Memorial
Union serves as a run-up to its semicentennial
with the presentation that highlights selections from
the Elliott and Stanley collections of European and African
art, respectively, as well as other works recently
entrusted to the museum as gifts and those purchased
with strategic forethought during the museum’s early
years. Building Community, on view until January
6, 2019, also shares the vision and plans for the new
building with the community that has nurtured this remarkable
institution.
FAR LEFT: Olga de Amaral,
AMARA, 2013.
Cotton, gesso, acrylic. H: 190 cm each.
Galerie La Patinoire Royale / Valérie
Bach, Brussels, Belgium.
Courtesy of Casa Amaral © Diego
Amaral.
LEFT: Martin Gusinde, Ulen,
Selkman, Patagonia, 1932.
Carbon print. 58 x 41 cm.
Private collection, Paris.
© Martin Gusinde/Anthropos Institut/
Editions Xavier Barral.
BELOW CENTER: Luiz
Zerbini, A Primeira Missa,
2014.
Acrylic on canvas. 200 x 300 cm.
Luiz Zerbini Collection. © Luiz Zerbini.
Photo: Jaime Acioli.
RIGHT: Guido Boggiani.
Indienne Kadiwéu,
1887–1901.
Postcard. 14 x 9 cm.
Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques
Chirac, Paris.
© Guido Boggiani. Photo © Musée
du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Dist.
RMN-Grand Palais/image Musée du
Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac.
FAR RIGHT: Miguel Rio
Branco, Les Yeux de l’oiseau,
village Kayapó de Gorotire,
Pará, Brésil, 1983.
Chromographic print. 60 x 80 cm.
Artist’s collection.
© Miguel Rio Branco.
LEFT: Nature spirit pair,
asie usu.
Baule, Côte d’Ivoire.
Wood. H: 41.3 cm.
The Stanley Collection, University of
Iowa, inv. X1986.527.
Photo: Steve Erickson.
MUSEUM news
SOUTHERN GEOMETRIES
Paris—This season the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art
Contemporain located in Paris’ 14th arrondissement is
focusing on South and Latin America. Contemporary African
art has been in vogue for several years now, and
South American artists are now gradually taking their
place in the landscape. The opportunity this presents
has not been lost on the foundation and it is now a key
component in raising awareness with its new exhibition
Géométries Sud: du Mexique à la Terre de Feu (Southern
Geometries: From Mexico to Patagonia). Featuring stylized
geometric designs based on those of the Tiwanaku
culture, metal wire versions of ancient traditional weavings,
the colorful interlaced motifs of the Aymara, and
architectural conceptions inspired by fi eld photographs
of Maya sites or of Machu Pichu, these works open a
dialog between ancient and contemporary art as well as
between elitist and popular art. The exhibition reveals
the sources from which these artists drew their inspiration
and identifi es the infl uences that
both Pre-Columbian art and the crafts of
contemporary indigenous communities
had upon them. The exhibition
will be on view through February
24, 2019.