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ABOVE: At left, Guilhem
Montagut in his new gallery
with a Songye power fi gure
and a canvas by Antonio
Saura. At right, interior view
of the same gallery, located
at 163 Carrer de Pau Claris in
Barcelona.
RIGHT: Photograph by
Tekla Vály.
Special exhibition by Tischenko Gallery,
September 10–16, 2018, in Paris.
FAR RIGHT: Toggle, ivi po’o.
Marquesas Islands.
Bone. H: 5 cm.
To be offered by Lempertz, Brussels,
October 24, 2018, est. 6,000–8,000
euros.
BELOW: Standing fi gure.
Sepik, Papua New Guinea.
Wood, fi ber, shell. H: 18 cm.
To be offered by Lempertz, Brussels,
October 24, 2018, est. 10,000–15,000
euros.
ART IN MOTION
NEW GALLERY
BARCELONA—On September 27, 2018, the city of Barcelona
will add a new African art gallery to its vibrant
arts scene, and it will be one with public hours and
street frontage. The person behind this project is Guilhem
Montagut, who, after his many years at his space
on Boulevard dels Antiquaris on the Passeig de Gràcia
in Barcelona, has decided to provide his clients with a
gallery that is commensurate both with the growth he
hopes to achieve and his high standards in artworks and
display. The new space is at 163 Carrer de Pau Claris, just
a few hundred meters from Gaudi’s famous modernist
Pedrera building.
The inaugural exhibition will be a juxtaposition of classical
African pieces with a selection of photographs by
Dutch artist Ingrid Baars, the author of works that are
rich in references to traditional cult objects which she
combines with images of real women. This initial exhibition
ushers in a new phase for the Guilhem Montagut
Gallery and can be viewed as a declaration of an intention
to celebrate great traditional African art while simultaneously
affi rming a very contemporary sensibility.
HIDDEN SIBERIA
PARIS—From September 10–16, 2018, Helsinki’s
Tischenko Gallery will be exhibiting at 21 rue Génégaud
in Paris with a show titled Seven Eyes: Hidden Siberia.
This short-term show will center around seven large-format
photographs by Finnish-Hungarian photographer
Tekla Vály, a resident of Helsinki. In them, shamanic objects
are presented as mysterious instruments with active
forces. A selection of relevant antique objects from a private
collection will echo the photos and complement the
gallery’s offerings.
A SCULPTOR’S EYE
BRUSSELS—Lempertz auction house has announced
that it will hold a sale on October 24,
2018, of nearly 200 lots of African and Oceanic
material from a single collection. The sale is titled
The Sculptor’s Eye and will feature primarily
Melanesian works. Apart from utilitarian objects
like shields, the offerings will include Marquesas
Islands ear ornaments and interesting pieces from New
Ireland, such as two tatanua masks and a malangan sculpture,
the latter formerly in the collection of Wilhelm Heinrich
Solf, who from 1900 to 1911 was the fi rst governor
of Samoa. Africa will also be well represented with a fi ne
selection of ceremonial objects. Highlights of these include
a Cameroonian Fang fi gure with an inscription that attests
to its having once been in an old British collection and an
Ekoi dance crest from Nigeria formerly in Stuttgart’s Linden
Museum and collected by Captain Hans Glauning
while he served in Cameroon between 1901 and 1908.
A special preview of the objects in this sale will be held
in Paris from September 7–14 at Artcurial. The regular presale
preview will take place in the Lempertz showroom in
Brussels from October 19–23.