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this well-known street of the Saint-
Germain-des-Prés neighborhood
participate.
Through June 29 afi cionados
and beginners alike will have the
opportunity to experience Dogon:
Art ancestral du Mali, an exhibition
that honors this culture’s
remarkable art. The exhibition
features major works, such as
a double fi gure from the André
Fourquet Collection and a Niongom
fi gure published in Hélène
Leloup’s acclaimed 1994 Statuaire Dogon. The show will
strive to highlight the nuances that lie at the heart of
pre-Dogon and Dogon ancestral art through a selection
of about thirty pieces that includes sculptures, masks,
and architectural elements.
Remedies at Galerie Afrique
RAMATUELLE—It’s not summer without an African art
exhibition in Ramatuelle, and we have Galerie Afrique to
thank for that. Every July, the gallery welcomes the many
visitors to this beautiful medieval village on
the French Riviera by staging a cultural event
commensurate with the beauty of the place.
This year, the subject is the art and medicine
of West Africa. From July 1–August 31, 2019,
the gallery will be fi lled with symbols of distress—
masks with deformed features from
the Pende of the Democratic Republic of the
Congo for instance—as well as by “remedy
objects” such as receptacles for medicinal
substances from Tanzania, sculptures associated
with the Vodun practices of West Africa,
and healing fi gures from Ghana. While these
objects come from many different regions and
answer to a wide variety of needs, the gallery’s
owners feel they share a commonality
in their formal conception with the works of
the masters of abstractionism and cubism in
twentieth-century Western art.
ART in motion
The Yaure as Seen by Éric Hertault
PARIS—For the second exhibition at his space on Rue
Visconti, Éric Hertault is highlighting the art of the Yaure,
the formal rigor and purity of line for which he has a
particular fondness. Visages du sacré ou la culture de
l’esthétique chez les Yaure (Faces of the Sacred, or
the Culture of the Aesthetic among the Yaure) will be
on view from June 18–July 27, 2019, and will feature
masks, spoons, and heddle pulleys—very different objects,
to be sure, but their common denominator is in
the representation of the face with idealized traits and
a serene expression. Most of the pieces being offered
come from Hertault’s private collection, which is made
up primarily of objects from Côte d’Ivoire, but a carefully
selected group of works from private collections that
attest to the dealer’s highly developed taste in this fi eld
will also be on hand.
Ode to Dogon Art at Galerie Flak
PARIS—After having participated in the 2019 MATA
show in New York and the Bourgogne Tribal Show, Galerie
Flak will present a special exhibition at its permanent
space on Rue des Beaux Arts. The event will open on
June 6, 2019, in association with Jeudi des Beaux-Arts
(Beaux-Arts Thursday), in which most of the galleries on
LEFT: Mask.
Yaure; Côte d’Ivoire.
Wood.
Photo © Galerie Hertault.
RIGHT: Double fi gure.
Komakan, proto-Dogon;
Mali.
Wood. H: 68 cm.
Ex Pierre Harter, Michel Gaud, André
Fourquet.
Galerie Flak. Photo © D. Voirin.
BELOW: Female fi gure.
N’duleri, proto-Dogon; Mali.
19th century or earlier.
Wood. H: 26 cm.
Ex Maurice Nicaud; Aaron and Joyce
Furman; private collection, USA.
Galerie Flak. Photo © D. Voirin.
BOTTOM RIGHT: Deformity
mask. Pende; DR Congo.
Wood, pigment.
Photo © Galerie Afrique, Ramatuelle.