Les Forêts Natales: Arts D'Afrique Équatoriale Atlantique
COEDITION MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY - JACQUES CHIRAC
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Release Date: 14/09/2018
For an intimate understanding of a Kota reliquary or a great Fang mask you have to feel the fresh damp of the forest, the dull sounds in the vastness beneath the foliage, the lacy filigree of every different bird species combined with the symphony of animal groups in concert_ in turn obeying the commands of variations in temperature, rain and wind. They represent a natural ode to the legitimate syncretism of nature and culture, because we are indeed in Nature. Pierre Huguet's 1990 fi eld recordings in the heart of the virgin forest constitute a sensorial experience for all those who wish to listen to the Congolese tree canopy of the sculptors of indigenous art. The forest of Man. 2017