Columbia-Urhobo at African Antiques
|
|
African
Art David
Norden |Mail|map
Sint Katelijnevest 27. B2000 ANTWERPEN-Belgium. Tel +32
3 227 35 40
Discover the African Art books I like
Columbia-Urhobo at African Antiques
|
Columbia Museum to host Urhobo African art exhibit
read also on same subject: Urhobo The Columbia Museum of Art host an exhibition of African art "Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal in Urhobo Art."This exhibition is the first to focus exclusively on the art of the Urhobo, the people of the western fringe of the Niger River Delta in southern Nigeria. Approximately 80 works of art, including photographs, video and audio recordings of cultural performances are included in the exhibition. "Where Gods and Mortals Meet" addresses the effort to preserve culture, religion and art in the face of modernization.
|
| October 15, 2004 - January 16, 2005 |
| Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal in Urhobo Art (Lipscomb Family Galleries) This exhibition is the first to focus exclusively on the art of the Urhobo people of the western fringe of the Niger River Delta in southern Nigeria. Approximately 80 artworks, photographs, video and audio recordings of cultural performances, from yesterday and today are included in this exhibition. Where Gods and Mortals Meet addresses the effort to preserve culture, religion and art in the face of modernization. This exhibition introduces the spiritual beliefs, social and economic life, and the role that art plays among the Urhobo peoples and is organized by the Museum for African Art, Long Island City, NY. |
|
Since the 1970s, the petroleum industry has brought worldwide wealth and attention to Nigeria, but tragically it has detracted from broad economic progress as flow stations, flare-offs, drilling platforms and pipelines have proliferated. As rural economies suffered an inevitable decline, the custom of maintaining traditional Urhobo art has experienced a parallel atrophy. The resultant decline in Urhobo culture has prompted a response among many Urhobo who want to celebrate and preserve their traditions for future generations. The Museum for African Art is proud to make a major contribution to this effort through the presentation of Where Gods and Mortals Meet, the first exhibition to showcase Urhobo arts. The exhibition introduces never before seen Urhobo art and footage of cultural performances from yesterday and today. Where Gods and Mortals Meet includes traditional artworks from the historical period 1850-1975 including monumental wood figures, metal and clay sculpture, masks and costumes with accompanying poetry and song. Also included is a selection of contemporary works by Bruce Onobrakpeya, an Urhobo by birth and one of Africa's foremost artists whose style draws upon historical Urhobo art as its key source of inspiration. Photographs and video footage of extraordinary multi-media masquerades round out the exhbition. The exhibition's artists, scholars and consultants include six Urhobo nationals who are purposefully maintaining their cultural heritage in art, dance, poetry, music, rituals, ceremonies and written scholarship. |
Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal in Urhobo Art is the first exhibition devoted to the art of the Urhobo people who live in the Niger River Delta in southern Nigeria. Over 70 works of traditional and complementary contemporary artworks are illustrated throughout essays on Urhobo culture and spiritual beliefs. Field photographs taken by the author over many years of intimate collaboration with the Urhobo are featured throughout. Exhibition catalogue edited by Perkins Foss with Foreword by Peter Ekeh, and contributions by G.G. Darah, Michael Y. Nabofa, Tanure Ojaide, Bruce Onobrakpeya, and John Picton. Published by the Museum for African Art, New York, and Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, Gent, April 2004. 152 pp. Cloth: ISBN 90-5349-506-1. Paper: ISBN 0-945802-36-6. LLCN 2004102120. Retail: Cloth $65.00. paper $40.00.
available on amazon.com
: Where
Gods and Mortals Meet
Author: Perkins Foss; Buy New: $31.50
Read also
Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal in Urhobo Art at NMFA-Smithsonian Washington.
 |
Ceremonies and Festivals: Marriage, Burial, Chieftaincy, and Annual Festivals in Uvwie-Urhobo, Nigeria Goretti Zoma; Buy New: $19.95 |
Related Programming for the Exhibition -Perkins Foss, curator and Tanure Ojaide, professor and poet |
Perkins Foss has taught the history of art at Dartmouth College and Plymouth State College. He has studied the culture of the Urhobo since the 1960s, first as an ethnographer for the Nigerian Department of Antiquities and subsequently on trips to this region, accumulating a lifetime of scholarship on the Urhobo. He holds two Urhobo chieftancy titles, the first in Orogun and the second in Evwreni.
Tanure Ojaide, professor of African-American and African studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, is a writer and poet. In addition to publishing numerous books of poetry, he has written extensively on African literature, poetry in particular.
Bruce Onobrakpeya (b. 1932)read also on same subject: Urhobo
most information found at: http://www.colmusart.org/html/s04exhibitions02.shtml
Read also
Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal in Urhobo Art at NMFA-Smithsonian Washington.
Dear African Art Collectors,
Discover the African Art books I like
African Antiques is the archive and not growing much anymore but still updated.
Visit African Art for recent African Art News.
For extended news about Columbia-Urhobo join our African Art Club and become an insider, to enter you'll need to pay a small monthly fee .
And if you are a collector of African Art, have a look at our exclusive African Art Collection .
David Norden
--------------------------------------
african art | home | african art shop
Mail
David Norden
Sint-katelijnevest 27
ANTWERPEN-Belgium
Any questions?
Call us at +32 3 227 35 40
In
this section:
partners
:
zemanek | Buy African Antiques | discussion group En | groupe de discussion Fr
The
Tribal Arts of Africa
Author: Jean-Baptiste Bacquart
Sites Roll:
African Art Amazon books | African Art Books
African Arts news , Oceanic, Pre-Columbian
African Art Club Join today, be an insider !
Buy African Art from known collections.
diamonds
news is good news.
Performance of Water-Spirit Mask