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next exhibition "Voodoo" to the foundation Cartier

The next exhibition (from April 5, 2011) of the Cartier Foundation will focus on art Voodoo, here is the press release:



"PRIMITIVE FOR THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE VOODOO, JACQUES Kerchache THERE, AND THERE IS TO IT. "Andre Malraux





The Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art will present for the first time the public an exceptional collection of voodoo objects from the collection of Anne and Jacques Kerchache in a layout designed by Enzo Mari, the One of the great masters of Italian industrial design. The exhibition is organized with the complicity of Anne Kerchache - Today Douaoui Ms. Kamal - who was the wife of Jacques Kerchache until his death in 2001.

Kerchache and Jacques Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art
Artistic adviser and curator, Jacques Kerchache was an ardent supporter of the arts and worked first for their entry in the collections of major French museums. It was at his initiative led to the creation Pavillon des Sessions at the Louvre in 2001 and the Musée du Quai Branly in 2006. Jacques Kerchache also collaborated with the Fondation Cartier in many occasions, firstly on the thematic exhibitions TO FACE (1992) and being kind (1998), but also Personal exposure of Haitian artist Patrick Vilaire, Reflection on Death (1997).

Exposure voodoo
Following these collaborations, Jacques Cartier and the Fondation Kerchache wanted to organize an exhibition dedicated to voodoo statues, but the project was suspended following his death in 2001. So to mark the tenth anniversary of the death of Jacques Kerchache the Cartier Foundation has decided to reveal the fascinating and mysterious world of voodoo that was his passion throughout his life. Through exposure Voodoo, the Cartier Foundation pays tribute to this great expert and explorer famous for his eye and requiring knowledge of primitive art as contemporary art.

Art Voodoo
By the 1960s, Jacques Kerchache has recognized the aesthetic power and originality stunning statuary voodoo and its forms. At this time, during his early travels in the present Republic of Benin, the birthplace of voodoo, he begins to piece together what has become the largest collection of African sculptures, voodoo. The exhibition will present a hundred of these objects, some of which now belong to private collections.

objects of worship
voodoo sculptures, assemblages anthropomorphic ropes, bones, shells or clay, play a role in the practice of this ancient religious cult and still living off the coast of Togo west Nigeria. Covered with a thick layer of material made of earth, palm oil and powder, these sculptures exude a strange and unsettling sense of tension and apprehension. Their ambiguous aesthetic is intimately linked to their role is both to protect their owners from danger and harm persons responsible for their problems.

By silent simplicity, exposure, suitable for meditation, let the objects speak impenetrable and reveal the mystery and beauty of statuary convulsive voodoo.

CATALOGUE PUBLISHED BY CARTIER FOUNDATION ON THE OCCASION OF THE EXHIBITION TO BENEFIT CONTRIBUTIONS OF VOODOO Suzanne Preston Blier, GABIN DJIMI MARC AUGÉ OR THE HAITIAN ARTIST PATRICK Vilaire.

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