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Press Newsletter - September to December 2016 |
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EXHIBITION
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THE COLOR LINE, African-American Artists and Segregation
04/10/16 – 15/01/17
Garden Gallery
Title of an article by the important black leader Frederick Douglass, the expression The Color Line refers to the segregation of black people that emerged in the United States after the end of the Civil War in 1865. The ratification of the 13 th amendment was to open a new period in American history, with slavery giving way to a century of segregation (which would end in 1964, after many struggles, with the signing of the Civil Rights Act by President Johnson).
THE COLOR LINE, African-American Artists and Segregation discusses this history from the perspective of artistic creation in all its forms by African-American artists, who were themselves victims of this discriminatory color line, and were almost always marginalised in their time.
The exhibition, through a chronological and thematic route of some 200 works and 400 original documents – painting, sculpture, photography, film, music, graphic design and comics – pays tribute to the richness and diversity of these creations.
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EXHIBITION
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ECLECTIC, A 21st Century Collection
22/11/16 – 02/04/17
East Gallery
Following the exhibitions D’UN REGARD L’AUTRE (2006) and CHARLES RATTON, L’invention des arts primitifs (2013), and before PICASSO PRIMITIVE (2017) and FÉNÉON (2018), with ECLECTIC, A 21st Century Collection, the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac continues its examination of the history of art collecting, as well as the place of so-called “primitive” arts in the history of art.
More than 60 masterpieces – African Art and Oceanian Art as well as major classical, modern, contemporary, historical or rare works – the exhibition aims to outline the history of the collection of Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière, as well as the private aspects of the collector’s relationship with it. The exhibition illustrates the impulses and motivations of a collector of the 21st century with regard to the primitive arts, in this new way of recognising these arts.
This exhibition is an opportunity to come back on the numerous important moments of the creation of this collection: the interest for antique civilisations, for Orient or for the Mediterranean basin, the interest for the evolution toward abstraction, stylization, minimalism, “outsider art”, and extra-occidental arts, in a attentive development for human form of naturalism to stylization.
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EXHIBITION
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FROM JORDAN TO CONGO, Art and Christianity in Central Africa
22/11/16 – 02/04/17
East Gallery
Dedicated for the first time to the influence that Roman Catholicism and Christian iconography had on Kongo art and culture between the 15 th and 20 th century, this exhibition presents an exceptional collection of 100 Kongo works of Christian inspiration – crucifixes, sculptures, pendants, engravings and drawings – from the collections of the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren, the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, as well as Belgian and French private collections.
The exhibition first touches on the early stages of Christianisation of the Kongo kingdom in the first contacts with the Portuguese, from 1492 until the 18 th century. It then presents different types of power attributes of Kongo leaders in the to 19 th and 20 th centuries. Some twenty large crucifixes are gathered here for the first time, as well as “mestizo objects” recognisable from the perspective of Christian iconography, figures of saints or the Virgin, or the bizarre female Christs, which are removed from their function of strict Catholic or worship usage. The exhibition also touches on the Catholic influence on other ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo or Angola, before ending with the history of traditional religions seen through the prism of Christianity.
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EXHIBITION
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PERSONA, Strangely human
Until Sunday 13/11/16
West Gallery
Many objects have a status that more closely resembles that of a person than of a simple object. Artistic objects – Western and non-Western, folk or contemporary – and high-tech products such as robots and machines are often granted unexpected capacities for action, making them « quasi-people ».
At a time of great discussions about transhumanism and artificial intelligence, the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac is presenting an exhibition that will help us understand the mechanisms by which cultures – from the most ancient to the most contemporary – inject personhood into objects. Through 230 exhibits – statues, amulets, puppets, masks, robots and machines – the exhibition sheds light on these « strange humans ».
By analysing the process of transforming inert matter into an embodied presence, the exhibition explores the contextual reasons, the emotions that are aroused (malaise, repulsion, fascination, etc.), and the fabric of relationships over time (solidarity, empathy, attachment, etc.). By bringing together objects of all kinds, objects which are involved in this process, the exhibition PERSONA, Strangely human becomes a true anthropology testing ground, by various experience of encounter, as destabilizing as they are enriching, in order to discover more about themselves.
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EXHIBITION ABROAD
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TATTOO
21/10/16 – 30/04/17
The Field Museum, Chicago (U.S.A.)
The exhibition TATTOO began its international tour at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, after being presented with great success at the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (2014-2015), where more than 700.000 visitors were able to discover the artistic dimension of tattoos, as well as their history through all cultures since the first evidence of their existence. TATTOO pursues its international tour at the Field Museum of Chicago.
In the so-called “primitive” societies of the East, Africa and Oceania, tattooing has a social, religious and mystical role, and is part of an individual’s rites of passage, including them in the community. Conversely, in the West, it was once a mark of disgrace, criminality or was a circus attraction (a sideshow phenomenon), later becoming an identifying mark for urban tribes. By bringing together at the Field Museum over 180 historical and contemporary artworks from around the globe, the exhibition explores the world of tattoos, and presents a totally new approach to this ancestral practice by examining the sources and renewal of this now permanent and globalised phenomenon.
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
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THE MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY – JACQUES CHIRAC 10 YEARS AFTER… DESIGNING A MUSEUM
Thursday 29/09 and Friday 30/09/16, 9:30am – 6:30pm
Claude Lévi-Strauss Theatre
To mark the 10 th anniversary of the museum, this international symposium takes another look at the history of the museum since it opened, and particularly at the questions that have confronted it during this period.
What was the idea for the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac? How was it implemented and what changes has it seen? And how has it developed? What effect has it had on concepts for museums elsewhere in the world, and how has it changed the practices of conservation and research?
Without claiming to be exhaustive, this symposium will bring together the great witnesses of the birth and construction of the museum, key figures in the different sectors of the museum, researchers and observers from near and far, representatives of the public and of the communities concerned with the museum and its collections. Rather than a succession of lectures, the symposium sessions will take the form either of round table meetings or of discussions between two or three participants responding to questions posed by well-informed mediators and by the public. Its aim, in the end, is to examine and plan the museum of tomorrow.
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MUSEUM LIFE
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A SET OF 70 PHOTOGRAPHS AND DOCUMENTS BY JAMES BARNOR JOINS THE MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Born in 1929, James Barnor is considered as one of the pioneers of African photography. After photographing everybody who was anybody in Accra in the 50s in his studio, he became the country’s first photojournalist in the 60s, producing reports on the African diaspora in the streets of London.
This exceptional set of 70 photographs (modern and vintage prints) and documents, acquired with the participation of the Cercle pour la Photographie of the Société des Amis du musée, supplements the 710,000 works already in the museum’s rich photographic collection. It is one of the 80,000 new acquisitions made in 10 years. The museum is thus pursuing its active policy to promote contemporary non-European photography with the acquisition of works by major artists who are under-represented or not represented in national collections.
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2016 - 2017 PROGRAMME
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