Fang Olamzé reliquary guardian statue, Cameroon, c. 1960

Fang statues can be classified into three main groups: heads on long necks, half-figures and full figures, standing or seated. Carved with great simplicity, while exhibiting a high degree of sophistication in the coordination of rounded forms. The neck is usually cylindrical in shape. The arms are in various positions: hands together in front of the body (sometimes holding an object); holding a vessel, attached to it; and hands resting on the knees in seated figures. Height: 55 cm Reproduced: Catalogue “Africa Babel: the Art of a Continent”, p.- 100
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