Baulé mask, Ivory Coast, c. 1980

The masks correspond to various types of dances: the Gba gba, the Bonu Amuen, the Mblo and the Goli. They never represent ancestors and are always worn by men. The Gba was used at women's funerals during the harvest season. It celebrates beauty and age, and is very refined in its features. The double mask represents the marriage of the sun and the moon or twins, whose birth is always a good sign during the harvest season, and celebrates beauty and age. Height: 29 cm Reproduced: Catalogue “Africa Babel: the Art of a Continent”, p.- 218
 
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