Regards Himalayens Kathmandu August 15/16 2014

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Kathmandu August 15/16,
“Cafè Electric Pagoda”, Thamel, Ktm

 

 

First Nepali meeting on Himalayan tribal arts and comparison with western “gazes”.

 

The event brought together some exponents of the Himalayan market of Tribal Arts: Shiva Bhandari,
Suman Raj, Bishnu Shrestha, Raju Shrestha, Ram Bohora, Sitaram Bajgayn.  

 This is an attempt to propose an aesthetic and qualitative common ground and a more defined stylistic identity of Himalayan Tribal Arts.

For the meeting, every participant had selected some artworks in order to contribute to the debate around a possible definition of an ‘Himalayan aesthetics’;

controversial subject, which is still widely unknown to the western world or object to misleading interpretations especially if compared with the African aesthethic.

 

 

 

In representation of the Himalayan art, the meeting had offered  masks from different areas of Nepal, Phurba and wooden sculptures with different patinas.

 

Curator and creator of the event:

 

Dr. Andrea Mordacci 

 

in collaboration with

 

Ethnoflorence.

 

 With the hope that this project, duly enlarged and in the details curated, will be followed by the organization of a first National exhibition in Nepal of
Himalayan tribal arts, possibly during the period spring/summer 2015.

 

 

Photo courtesy of Ravee Maharjan

 

Enzo Mordacci,
Text by Andrea Mordacci and Ethnoflorence

 

Translation by Alice Borchi and Ethnoforence

 

Edited by

Ethnoflorence

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Yale Art Gallery East of the Wallace Line II

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 YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY

NEW HAVEN

CONNECTICUT

Friday, August 15, 2014–Sunday, February 1, 2015

EAST OF THE WALLACE LINE

MONUMENTAL ART

FROM

INDONESIA AND NEW GUINEA

PART II

Part I

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/east-of-the-wallace-line-monumental-art-from-indonesia-and-new-guinea/ 

Crossing a Line in the Sea

The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/arts/design/east-of-the-wallace-line-opens-at-the-yale-university-art-gallery.html?_r=0

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TROIS CHAMANS RENCONTRS CHAMANIQUES AU NEPAL

TROIS CHAMANS

RENCONTRS CHAMANIQUES AU NEPAL

https://www.facebook.com/events/1506479452923157/?notif_t=plan_user_invited

 18:00 – 20:30 : Meeting and Screening of “Three Shamans” (77 min), with the documentarists Adrien Viel and Aurore Laurent (the projection is on French).
Location : Alliance Française of Venice – Ponte dei Baretteri – San Marco 4939.
“In the heart of Himalayan hills, the Shamans travel in the ethereal. Shamans’ vocation is to relieve suffering people exploring and making contact to the ancestors and spirits’ worlds. Everyone has his method: three stories, three countries, three shamans”
About the documentary

Aurore Laurent said :
“Our purpose was to follow only one Shaman in his pratice, but during the recording, we understand that everyone has his own way to practice shamanism due to the different ethnic groups and heritage. That’s why we understand it would had been reducing telling only one history. Shamans people are usually erudites, poets or insane… We immediately decided to build the movie as a triptyque : 3 report on 3 states of shamanism in Nepal. We followed 3 ethnic groups during the documentary; Gurung, Tamang and Chepang, trying to show how various is this practice, according to ethnich, geographic and economic conditions. In the documentary are well-shown the differences between the first and most alive shamanism and the third more declined one.”

http://3chamans.com/

Infos and reservations : +39 041 720507

(11:00-13:00 and 14:30-18:00)

info@icivenice.com

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AMULETS

TOGCHANG

RUBIN MUSEUM COLLECTION NEW YORK

 

Garuda bird

Garuda bird

Medallions

PHOTO CREDIT HIMALAYAN ART ORG WEB SITE

http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=1639

 

EAST of the WALLACE LINE Monumental Art from Indonesia and New Guinea

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East of the Wallace Line

Monumental Art

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Indonesia and New Guinea

Yale University Art Gallery

Part one

Part two

Coming soon

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Hanuman mask Marcia & Irwin Hersey New York USA – Rajbansi Monkey Mask – Nepal

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Upcoming Auctions

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ZEMANEK MUNSTER

Discovery Auction in September:

Tribal Art objects with
50% reductions and more

http://www.tribal-art-auktion.de/en/home/

online catalog

http://www.tribal-art-auktion.de/en/catalogue186/d10_1/

LOT 35

Photo Credit of Zemanek Munster

Hanuman mask

H: 28,5 cm

H: 11,2 inch

Provenance

Marcia & Irwin Hersey

New York

USA

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Visual Himalayan Lots Resume with a

Marcia & Irwin Hersey

Provenance

Photo Credit of Zemanek Munster / Photo Composition by Ethnoflorence

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ETHNOFLORENCE

EXTRACTS FROM OUR PHOTO ARCHIVES COLLECTION

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Old Nepalese Monkey Mask

Ethnoflorence Photo Archive Collection

Left & Top side View

Old Nepalese Monkey Mask – Ethnoflorence Photo Archive Collection

Right Side & Forehead Detail

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GALERIE DAVID SERRA Ghurras du Nepal Parcours des Mondes Paris 2014

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PARIS SAINT GERMAIN DES PRES

 

Parcours des Mondes

 

2014

 

9 au 14 septembre

 

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GALERIE DAVID SERRA

 

Ghurras du Nepal

 

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Expose chez Galerie Marie-Laure

 

de l’Ecotais

 

49 rue de Seine

 

http://www.parcoursmondes.com/index.php?section=plan&filter=27&lang=fr

 

Pour la 13^e édition du Parcours des Mondes, la galerie David Serra – Art Tribal présente l’exposition Ghurras du Népal, ainsi qu’un accrochage d’importantes oeuvres d’arts premiers. reproduites dans un catalogue, Arts Premiers 2014

Ghurras du Nepal Galerie David Serra

see more

http://www.parcoursmondes.com/index.php?section=exposition_detail&post=1853&lang=fr

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Pillared Temple Hall India Madurai Tamil Nadu Philadelphia Museum of Art

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PILLARED TEMPLE HALL

PHILADELPHIA

MUSEUM OF ART

India Madurai Tamil Nadu

c.1550

https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/40202.html

Photo Ethnoflorence

The granite pillars, brackets, and slabs that form this temple hall-mandapa- come from the Madanagopalaswamy Temple, a XVIth century building complex in the South Indian city of Madurai.

Photo Ethnoflorence

The complex is dedicated to Krishna, an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.

Photo Ethnoflorence

The architectural elements installed in the Museum were purchased in 1912 by Adeline Pepper Gibson of Philadelphia while on a visit to Madurai.

They are believed to have come primarily from a frrestanding hall that one stood in front of the main shrine and was probably dismantled in the mid-nineteenth century.

Photo Ethnoflorence

Gift of Susan Pepper Gibson, Mary Gibson Henry, and Henry C. Gibson in memory of Adeline Pepper Gibson, 1919-714.

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To mark the centenary of the arrival of the museum’s Pillared Temple Hall

[https://www.philamuseum.org/collectio…]

in Philadelphia, Dr. Crispin Branfoot of SOAS University of London explores the architecture and sculpture of monumental Hindu temples of sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Tamil south India.

Speakers: Darielle Mason, Crispin Branfoot

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Selected Bigliography

A Pillared Hall

from a Temple at Madura

India

in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

University of Pennsylvania Press. 1940

by

W. Norman Brown

full text here

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv4t826t

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