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
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-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.




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-WESTERN NEPAL, THE ARCHETYPIC ICONOGRAPHY OF AN ARTISTIC LIVING TRADITION I
Photo courtesy of Jean Claud Latombe

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-WESTERN NEPAL, THE ARCHETYPIC ICONOGRAPHY OF AN ARTISTIC LIVING TRADITION PART II
Photo courtesy of Reto Niederhauser

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-WESTERN NEPAL, THE ARCHETYPIC ICONOGRAPHY OF AN ARTISTIC LIVING TRADITION III
Photo courtesy of Paulo Grobel

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MASKS OF THE HIMALAYA: ETHNOFLORENCE AND INDIPENDENT POINT OF VIEW






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-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


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




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,



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-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).


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
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-THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK
THE ANCIENT ARCHETIPYC ICONOGRAPHY OF THE RITUAL WEAPONS AND ANTHROPOMORPHIC FIGURES FROM UTTAR PRADESH.

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




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-MASQUES & ARTS TRIBAUX HIMALAYENS, 2007 Exhibition of the Galerie le Toit du Monde in Paris at Salon du Vieux Colombier
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