wonders of africa: a new african arts exhibition
2010 is the year the World Cup came home to Africa. In Genoa, a new exhibition will close this “African” year and open a new one: the event will try to give a new image of Africa through arts.
Curated by Ivan Bargna of Giovanna Parodi da Passano, in collaboration with Marc Augé, the exhibition, whose headquarter is Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, even if a section is at Castello d’Albertis, presents an important selection of 300 works of traditional African art that have an aesthetic and cultural value.
Many works will be presented for the first time and come from important private Italian collections. The collection is mostly constituted by masks and wooden small statues – “fetishes”, images of forefathers and ghosts, sacred statues – but, also, by funerary poles, ritual objects daily used.
The designs are lead us to the heart of African subsaharan cultures, to their traditions and lifestyles, from Mali to Congo, and from the Ivory Coast to Cameroon.
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