The Benue River Valley is the source of some of the most abstract, dramatic, and inventive sculpture in sub-Saharan Africa. This international exhibition presents a comprehensive view of the arts produced in the region and includes some of the most abstract, dramatic and inventive sculpture in sub-Saharan Africa. The event will showcase more than 148 various and complex works, often used in rituals. It will demonstrate that Central Nigeria’s history can be studied through the relationship between the people and their arts, and a catalogue is published “Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley ”
February 13 – July 24, 2011
The Benue River Valley is the source of some of the most abstract, dramatic, and inventive sculpture in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet compared to the majority populations living in northern and southern Nigeria, the many and diverse groups flanking the 650-mile-long Benue River—and their fascinating arts—are far less known and studied. Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley will be the first major international exhibition to present a comprehensive view of the arts produced in the region. See more than 150 objects used in a range of ritual contexts, with genres as varied and complex as the vast region itself—figurative wood sculptures, masks, figurative ceramic vessels, and elaborate bronze and iron regalia—in a groundbreaking exhibition that demonstrates how the history of central Nigeria can be “unmasked” through the dynamic interrelationships of its peoples and their arts.
An exhibition created by the Fowler Museum at UCLA in association with the Musée du quai Branly in Paris, will be on view from Sept. 14 through March 4, 2012 at ...
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Some extremely interesting pieces you have displayed. Love them. Great blog by the way thanks.
David,
I am so happy with the contents of this e-mail this is definately why I joined the club.
Thanks,
Phyllis