maandag 16 februari 2015

Ivory Coast art, Rietvelds "Masters of African Art"; a crtitique by Madrason

About the exposition of African Masters in De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam;

I have enjoyed myself at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam and visited this exposition with joy. Yet did I miss the information that should be mentioned, the use of the objects, and of course it's creators. The good thing is that the creators were now sometimes named. As Franz Boas would have said , to deprimitivise the object without forgetting it's context, and to constitute a platform of autobiographies in and of African tribal (world) arts!
However the risks of commercialising yet again and to exclude the normal collector without no big names, from this enigmatic part of the worlds art in general. Not only for African art should there be a parallel lapse and fusion of autobiographies and the contextual uses of the Signed arts. But being significant shouldn't simply mean signed or ascribed to!! Obrechts also made a great effort in contributing to the author of the so called Primitive art. Let ś not beat around the bush and forget the whole concept of primitive from this moment on, please!
The thing I missed in Hombergers travelling exposition were the names Boas and Olbrechts.
The art made by the artist mentioned in the exposition, working with a chain saw , broke my heart, it is again another exhibionistic way of shamefully abusing a guy, who didn't have much more than a few insignificant words to add to his work, autographed in sito!
One cannot develop without history as a base. I do miss perspectives on a sound base. Why make such simple names as master of the round forms, big hands, big breasts, soon one is running out of names and I find it a kind of primitive language and offensive to the good intended goal; more significance to an art that hitherto was to often called primitive, we are passed that chapter now I hope?

Madrason at TrivialArtTribalArt dd 15 feb 2015 Bois le Duc
for Trivial Art Tribal Art = TA-TA

Book, Leo Frobenius Childhood of Man:

 
https://ia601701.us.archive.org/5/items/ChildhoodOfMan/ChildhoodOfMan_Froebenius_520pgsFO.pdf
 


Sites;
Franz Boas: https://www.google.nl/?gws_rd=ssl#q=primitive+art+boas.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Boas

 
Olbrechts; http://www.olbrechtsgenootschap.be/wie.html

 
Leo Frobenius: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frobenius

 
http://www.rietberg.ch/de-ch/ausstellungen/archiv/afrikanische-meister.aspx





















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