Photo courtesy of Festival Internacional Cervantino
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African Art
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GUANAJATO • Museo del Pueblo de Guanajuato • Ongoing
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This art show consists of African sculptures, masks, necklaces and other objects gathered by collector Alexander Gallo, who purposely writes:
" African art tries, in its essence, to be a means of protection for a tribal society that confronts a hostile, hidden and mysterious world. The Africans make their art objects – mostly masks and sculptures – for mediating between the people and the forces of nature which can be destroyers and terrible, or benevolent an prodigal. The artist wants to appease or please those forces by equipping his creations with sacred and magical powers; it is through his shaping sincerity that he bestows them with great aesthetic value. To be present at any mysterious ceremony impregnated with magic, as well as loaded with fantastic dances of joy, hope or violence, made me understand that in addition to the decorative beauty of the objects and artefacts, each one of them had a deep relationship with the animism that the Africans preserved in their relative millenary isolation. At that moment I was caught by this art, and as a great magnet, I have periodically returned to the different parallels of this great […] continent, looking for the rarest, most expressive, or most representative pieces. In the end, those whose aesthetic value can offer us an affection of great beauty."
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