Fang statue, Gabon, c. 1980

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, they also exhibit a high degree of sophistication in the coordination of rounded forms. The neck is usually a cylindrical form, the arms are positioned in various ways: 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. The navel is often exaggerated into a cylindrical form. The legs are short, atrophied, the forehead domed and broad and the eyebrows often form arches with the nose. Height: 72 cm Reproduced: Catalogue “Africa Babel: the Art of a Continent”, p.- 96 left.
 
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