Babanki Mask - Bamileké, Anglophone Region, c. 1970

Most of these Grassland kingdoms carved masks depicting male and female human heads or faces, and animals such as buffalo, deer, elephants and birds. According to tradition, the secret societies that used these masks believed that they had been created and consecrated by their own ancestors, other masks inspired great fear and were used during important ceremonies or annual festivals. Masks that provoke fear and apprehension are the work of the societies responsible for repression. Height: 27 cm Reproduced: Catalogue “Africa Babel: the Art of a Continent”, p.- 203 ctro
 
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