Edmond DARTEVELLE Carnets de Voyages

Un Valeureux Explorateur Africain
du 1er juin au 11 novembre 2010

Musée du président Jacques Chirac – 19800 Sarran
Tél. 05 55 21 77 77

Edmond Dartevelle collected more than 3,500 objects, in this exhibition you can see 130 of them . The Exhibition is in the Corrèze, 481 km below Paris  ( a 4h37 min drive) near Clermont-Ferrand.

See this french video with some in situ images

Figurine d’envoûtement maloango – Ethnie : VILI (région de Loango) Musée Royal d’Afrique centrale de Tervuren © Hughes Dubois

Ensemble nkisi – Musée Royal d’Afrique Centrale de Tervuren © Hughes Dubois

Edmond Dartevelle sur le “terrain” 1937 – Collection privée © Droits réservés

Edmond Dartevelle fut un vrai personnage de film ou de roman moderne.

Un Valeureux Explorateur Africain

read more about Edmond DARTEVELLE (in french), and see another video in the members section with some images from the exhibition

Vlijmscherp

>> english translation below

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In het kader van de feestelijkheden rond 50 jaar Congo toont de Universiteit Gent tijdens de Gentse feesten een selectie antieke Congolese wapens uit de Etnografische collectie voor het eerst aan het publiek.

Curator Bruno Claessens (expert Afrikaanse kunst verbonden aan Yale University) schetst met ‘Vlijmscherp’ met een 40-tal wapens een representatief beeld van de wijde variatie aan messen en zwaarden van de Centraal Afrikaanse volkeren. Gesmeed om te doden overstijgen vele exemplaren door hun decoratieve karakter hun utilitaire karakter.

Door het ontbreken van geschreven bronnen zijn ze stille getuigen van een tijdperk voor de komst van de blanke veroveraar, wiens vuurwapens de doodsteek van de traditionele wapens betekende. De tentoonstelling loopt
tijdens de Gentse feesten, van 17 tot 26 juli, in het Pand (Onderbergen 1, Gent), dagelijks van 11 tot 17u.

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As part of the celebrations around 50 years of independance of Congo, the Ghent University will show for the first time during  the “Gentse feesten” festival a selection of antique Congolese weapons from the Ethnographic collection to the public.

Curator Bruno Claessens (an African art expert at Yale University) presents with ‘Razor Sharp’ with a 40 weapons
representative of the wide variety of knives and swords of the Central African nations.

Forged to kill many of them transcend the decorative nature the daily use nature of their character.

 By the lack of written sources, they are silent witnesses of a era before the coming of the white conqueror, whose fire arms meant the death to the traditional weapons .

The ‘Razor Sharp’ exhibition runs during the ‘Gentse feesten’  Ghent festival, from July 17 to 26, in ‘Het Pand’ (Onderbergen 1
Ghent), daily from 11 to 17h.

If you live in Belgium and are free tonight you can print out the invitation for the Vernissage tonight

Seems the Bruneaf  has lesser visitors and buyers each year. During the weekend there where several auctions at Sothebys and Christies and also a big auction with the collection of Jacques Kerchache, where an important Tschokwe was preempted to the quai Branly for one and a half million – draining the good clients to Paris.

Some dealers did quite well, and there where beautiful objects at really affordable prices in Brussels available among the vetted dealers.

Even some dealer who are not members of the Bruneaf did good business, and the actions taken to stop them and warn clients they should be cautious did not stop customers buying in Shop with shiny catalogues and professional presentations, even if the objects seemed questionable. See some 100 images  in the members section taken on various locations during the Brussel events :

6 auctions in France between June 26 and July 3, 2010. Paris, Marseille, Enghien, Elbeuf, Cannes :