13.05.2010

KATMANDU SHRINES, INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART NEW YORK, -MASKS OF THE HIMALAYAS PACE PRIMITIVE Gallery NEW YORK, HIMALAYAN FOLK AND TRIBAL ART

KATMANDU SHRINES, PART I

Photo kindly courtesy of  Moj Gan

01

02

03

Photo courtesy of Moj Gan

-KHENIS, GHOST EATERS FIGURE IN  KAGBENI VILLAGE, NEPAL.

Kagbeni is a fortified two gates medioeval  village located in a strategic place at the cofluence of two river valleys, situated in a fertile area.

During the 19th century the human guards of the gates become superfluous and were replaced with two human figure moulded from clay each  named KHENIS or Ghost Eaters, primitive iconographic subjects probably remanants of the ancient BON religion.

04

05 (2)


06 (2)

 

08

Photo credit:

www.trekearth.com/gallery/photo481538.htm

www.travelpod.com  and  www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/inoursuitcase/freed...

-WESTERN NEPAL, THE  ARCHETYPIC ICONOGRAPHY OF AN ARTISTIC  LIVING TRADITION I


Photo courtesy of Jean Claud Latombe

09

See more on  http://ethnoflorence.skynetblogs.be/post/7701713/western-...-

-WESTERN NEPAL, THE ARCHETYPIC  ICONOGRAPHY  OF AN ARTISTIC LIVING  TRADITION  PART II

Photo courtesy of   Reto Niederhauser

010

See more on http://ethnoflorence.skynetblogs.be/post/7716824/western-...

-WESTERN NEPAL, THE  ARCHETYPIC ICONOGRAPHY OF AN ARTISTIC  LIVING TRADITION III

Photo courtesy of  Paulo Grobel

011

See more on http://ethnoflorence.skynetblogs.be/post/7824367/autres-m...

MASKS OF THE HIMALAYA: ETHNOFLORENCE AND INDIPENDENT POINT OF VIEW

011 01

011 02

012

013

014 bis

014

Ethnoflorence Himaalayan photo Archive

-MASKS OF THE HIMALAYAS PACE PRIMITIVE Gallery  NEW YORK, October 26 - December 1990, curated by LISA BRADLEY and with the contribute of Eric Chazot.

Front cover: Tibet Gonpo mask,

Catalog designed by Abby Goldstein and Julian Peploe
Photography by Malcom Varon and Sarah Wells.

Printed in Italy by LS Graphic Inc.

Library of Congress Catalog card number: 90-83431

015
016

 

Catalogo storico per le arti popolari della regione Himalayana, accanto a manufatti cd classici furono incluse anche maschere di carattere animistico.

-HIMALAYAN  ARCHAIC  FIGURE: ETHNOFLORENCE AND INDIPENDENT POINT OF VIEW

017

017 bis

018 bis

019

Allora come oggi scarsamente recensite, le arti tradizionali della vasta area himalayana sono latrici di un variegato , ricchissimo e originale repertorio iconografico, frutto della sincretica fusione di stilemi classici e popolari.

Ogni oggetto sembra essere in tal senso latore di una memoria  ancestrale che di volta in volta memorizza, interpreta e rielabora dettagli stilistici dal carattere spesso antinomico, così da  risultare, anche all'osservatore più attento, autentici 'rebus' figurativi, nei quali la presenza di simbologie  archetipicihe universali non è infrequente.

Queste considerazioni non sono però  del tutto valide per la statuaria arcaico-animistica dell'Ovest Nepal.

Queste  sculture  costituiscono la vitale , universale e cristallizzata archetipica testimonianza di culti e credenze popolari  che affondano le proprie radici in un remoto passato  ormai da noi dimenticato ma certamente, un tempo, comune al sentire di  tutti gli uomini.

Sono antecedenti alla differenziazione  ed evoluzione degli stili 'locali', sono opposte alla cd arte tribale, qualcosa che attiene ad una specifica e locale  geolocalizzazione temporale di stili ed iconografie.

Impermeabili alle influenze 'stilistiche' delle religioni major della regione, queste figure riassumono in sè un ricco ed unico  repertorio di credenze sempre più prossimo al collasso.

Uno scientifico e sistematico field work è oggi disperatamente urgente.

Nell'attesa  Ethnoflorence ha intrapreso una mappatura dell'area ed uno studio iconografico-comparativo dei manufatti

-INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART NEW YORK,

020

021

 

022

Coming soon

-VOYAGE IN MONGOLIA IS A 2003 EXHIBITION AT MUSEE  INTERNATIONAL DU CARNAVAL ET DU MASQUE  of BINCHE,
devoted to the Art of  Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Népal, Bouthan, Tibet,  Mongolie, with items from  the  Musée International du Carnaval et du Masque (M.I.C.M.), and  the Etnografisch Museum of Antwerpen. Nepalese pieces from the Collection of Eric Chazot (Paris).

023


024

 

About the Exhibition catalogue:

- PREFACE by Michel Revelard
-L'ART DU MASQUE EN HIMALAYA by Eric Chazot and  Michel Revelard
-CHAMANISME ET BOUDDHISME by Jan van Alphen
-LES MASQUES DU NEPAL: LE VISAGE DES DIEUX by Eric Chazot
-LES RITUELS BOUDDHIST


Photo courtesy of  SANZA ART PREMIERS  BRUXELLES  http://sanza.skynetblogs.be


025

 

026

027

028

029

030

031

032

033

Photo courtesy of  SANZA ART PREMIERS  BRUXELLES  http://sanza.skynetblogs.be

-THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK

THE ANCIENT ARCHETIPYC ICONOGRAPHY OF THE RITUAL WEAPONS AND ANTHROPOMORPHIC FIGURES FROM UTTAR PRADESH.

034

hese anthropomorphic figures, harpoons, ax blades (celts) and anntennae swords were cast and hammered from unalloyed copper.

They may be dated 1500 to 1000 bc.

Given that pure copper is a relatively soft metal and most of the objects ahow little  or no signs of wear, it seems likely that their function was largely dedicatory.

Hoards of such objects have been found across north India, the greatest concentration being in Uttar Pradesh.

The findspots suggest they were ritually deposited in rivers or marshes, though several related antennae swords were recovered in late Indus Valley civilization (ca. 1500 b.c.) burials at Sanauli.

-GHURRAS FROM ETHNOFLORENCE HIMALAYAN PHOTO ARCHIVE

059

060

061

062

Ethnoflorence Himalayan Photo Archive

-MASQUES & ARTS TRIBAUX HIMALAYENS, 2007 Exhibition of the Galerie le Toit du Monde in Paris at Salon du Vieux Colombier
Galerie Le Toit Du Monde 6, rue Visconti - 75006 Paris Tél/Fax : 01 43 54 27 05 / contact@letoitdumonde.net
http://www.letoitdumonde.net/

045

046

047

048

049

 

050

 

051

052
053

 

054
055

 

056

057

058

Photo courtesy of  SANZA ART PREMIERS  BRUXELLES  http://sanza.skynetblogs.be

TWO HIMALAYAN ARCHAIC REALIQUARY FIGURE FROM ETHNOFLORENCE ARCHIVE

035


036

 

 

037

038

039

040

041

042

043

044


063


064

 

 

065

066


067

 

068

069

070

071

Ethnoflorence photo archive

-GAIA S.A.S. MAISON DE VENTES AUX ENCHERES PUBLIQUES, 43 RUE DU TREVISE - 75009 PARIS
TEL 33 (0) 1 44 83 85 00
FAX 33(0) 1 44 83 85 01
E-mail  gaia@gaiaauction.com - www.gaiaauction.com

HIMALAYA ET SES SOURCES

ART TRIBAL ET CLASSIQUE

DIMANCHE 30 MAI 2000

VENTE A L'ATELIER RICHELIEU - 75002 PARIS

COMMISSAIRE-PRISEUR HABILITEE: NATHALIE MANGEOT

EXPERT: FRANCOIS PANNIER

http://www.gaiaauction.com/upload/fichiers/12669393704bdf...

-HIMALAYAN  ANCIENT WOODEN RITUAL HIGH RELIEF CARVED ITEMS 

072

073

074

075

076

077

078


http://ethnoflorence.skynetblogs.be/post/6155570/6-himala...

Ethnoflorence Himalayan photo archive
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Écrire un commentaire