Mossi mask-statue, Burkina Faso, c. 1980

This mask statue is a variation of the Karanga mask (plural: Karansé) which is one of the best known of traditional Mossi sculpture in the Yatenga style. Mask statues adorned with a female figure are called Karan-wemba, or Karan-borna or simply Wan-neda. This type of mask statue is not unlike the neighbouring Dogon masks and their representation Satimbe or Yasigine. Height: 106 cm Reproduced: Catalogue “Africa Babel: the Art of a Continent”, p.- 127 right
 
Exhibitions:
2022-2024 Island of Fuerteventura “Art Africa: Ancestral Light”. Lighthouse of the Entallada. Cabildo of Fuerteventura.
2021-2022 Panama City. Government of Panama. “Art Africa: the spirit of the ancestors”. Ministry of Culture Headquarters. Casco Viejo.
2019-2020 Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Caja Canarias Foundation. “Africa-Babel: the art of a Continent”. Headquarters Plaza Patriotismo.
2013-2015 Museum of Art of Africa and Oceania (Madao). La Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia.
2005 “Black Africa”, Leather Museum.
2004 “Black Africa”. Caixa Laietana Foundation, Barcelona. Main exhibition hall