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ART IN MOTION
ABOVE: Cover of Galerie
Pigalle: Afrique – Océanie.
1930. Une exposition
mythique.
Edited by Charles-Wesley Hourdé and
Nicolas Rolland. Published by Éditions
HR/Somogy, 2018.
ABOVE LEFT AND BELOW:
Objects featured in the
installation at Espace Tribal:
Pendant, hei tiki. Maori,
New Zealand.
Nephrite. H: 9.2 cm.
Statuette. Lega, DR Congo.
Ivory. H: 16.5 cm.
Skull hook. Blackwater River,
Papua New Guinea.
Wood, pigments. H: 57 cm.
“Espace Tribal”
During the seventeenth Parcours des Mondes, Tribal Art
magazine’s editors once again extend an invitation to
you to be part of the rich and varied cultural programming
that they are putting together for the event. In
addition to being an exhibition space, since 2015 Espace
Tribal at 22 Rue Visconti has been a place for lectures,
roundtable discussions, and debates. The fi rst of this
year’s events will take place on Tuesday, September 11,
at 2:30 p.m. Adam Lindemann, the honorary president
of Parcours des Mondes for 2018, will have an open
discussion with longtime African and Oceanic art dealer
Bernard de Grunne. The director of the Venus Over
Manhattan gallery and a private art investor, Lindemann
is also well known for his writing, particularly for his
books Collecting Contemporary (2006) and Collecting
Design (2010), and for the records he has set for contemporary
art sales.
A cornerstone of the multifaceted Espace Tribal is the
morning discussion sessions called Café Tribal, which this
year will center around the legendary 1930 exhibition at
the Galerie Théâtre Pigalle. Yaëlle Biro, associate curator
for African art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will
traces the genealogy of this event in a presentation titled
“From the Théâtre Pigalle exhibition in 1930 to the
Maison des Artistes in 1911” on Wednesday, September
12. On Thursday, honorary curator of
the Menil Collection, Virginia-Lee Webb will
talk about the African Negro Art exhibition
that was held at New York’s MoMA in 1935,
which was to a great extent inspired by the
1930 exhibition. Lastly, on Friday, Aurélien
Gaborit, curator of the African collection at
the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac,
will examine the inclusion of a Madagascan
object in the 1930 Pigalle show and will also
discuss the history of Madagascan art in
French collections, which is the subject of
Madagascar, l’art de la Grande Île (Madagascar,
Art of the Great Red Island), the
next major exhibition at the Musée du
Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac.
On Wednesday and Thursday, the
12th and 13th, presentations about new
books, including Galerie Pigalle: Afrique
– Océanie. Une exposition mythique,
Les années folles de l’ethnographie, Negro
Anthology, Textiles of Japan, and
Borobudur Under the Full Moon, will be
made by their authors and editors.
The week of programming will conclude
on Friday, September 14, with a colloquium devoted
to the future of the traditional arts of Africa, Oceania,
Asia, and the Americas. A number of American and
European participants will share their ideas and present
interesting cultural collaboration initiatives from both
sides of the Atlantic.
Espace Tribal will also host an exhibition curated by
Charles Wesley-Hourdé and Nicolas Rolland titled Pigalle
1930, retour sur une exposition mythique (Pigalle
1930 – Revisiting a Mythical Exhibition). The fi rst of its
kind, it promises to be a remarkable event. Both dealers
and researchers with specialties in the arts of Africa and
Oceania, the show’s two organizers are also the editors
of the publication Galerie Pigalle: Afrique – Océanie.
Une exposition mythique. In the course of putting together
this retrospective book, they were able to trace
the histories of a signifi cant number of the artworks that
were displayed in this historic exhibition. Using this information,
Hourdé and Rolland created this exhibition,
which brings together some thirty objects that were part
of the 1930 show and are now in private collections.
These will be presented in conjunction with photographs
and other documentation and will provide an opportunity
to better understand the role and involvement of
charismatic individuals like Charles Ratton, Tristan Tzara,
Pablo Picasso, and André Derain in the
organization of an exhibition that has
become truly legendary today. The
show will be on view for the duration of
the Parcours des Mondes.
A detailed program of events will
be available at Espace Tribal, 22 rue
Visconti, and on the Parcours des
Mondes website.
www.parcours-des-mondes.com – Click “events”
/www.parcours-des-mondes.com
