Female bust of gilded wire, Spain, mid-20th century
Starting price 100 €
Lot 21
Ogoni mask, Nigeria, c. 1970
This is a typical Ogoni mask, with a hinged jaw. The mask shows the characteristics of their style, carved from light wood and relatively small. Its face, with the small, broad, upward-curving nose, is coloured white. The head is worn in a high, rounded, dark hairstyle. Also its ears, the round scarification marks on both temples and the forehead, the outlines of its slanted eyes and the wide mouth are dark. Its large jaws allow an Ogoni mask to 'speak'. The movable lower jaw is attached to the head of the mask, left and right, by fibre cords. Height: 28 cm Reproduced: Catalogue “Africa Babel: the Art of a Continent”, p.- 179
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
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