Bamana, Mali - Lot 67

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Bamana, Mali - Lot 67
Bamana, Mali Ciwara wooden headdress H. 62 cm - W. 23 cm Ciwara crests were among the first African art objects exhibited in European museums (donated in 1882 to the Trocadéro Ethnographic Museum by Colonel Louis Archinard, shortly before the capture of Ségou and the creation of the autonomous colony of Sudan). They quickly gained favor with modern artists, directly or indirectly influencing their work. "In their effort to suggest an invisible world dating back to the mythical times of the founding of agriculture, Bamana sculptures transcend with admirable audacity the constraints of the 'natural' appearance of beings and things" (Colleyn and Homberger, 2006: 47). With perfectly controlled rhythm, the powerful dynamics of the straight lines and the tension of the curves play with space—whether enclosing or piercing it—while concentrating the visual effect through the echo of forms reduced to their essential lines.
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