Right in the eyes
From 09 November 2010 to 09 January 2011
Musée du quai Branly - Primitive masks from Nepal
Exhibition website
This winter, the musée du quai Branly will showcase an exceptional set of 22 primitive masks from Nepal donated by collector Marc Petit in 2003.
In the hills of Nepal live tribal societies which were neither Buddhist nor Hindu at the outset: the best known are the Magars, the Gurungs, the Tamangs, the Rais and the Lumbus. These masks, some probably linked to shamanism, which still exists today, had been used for centuries.
Ancestor faces, mythical figures, demons and buffoons, these masks represent the trace left by shamanism and ancestral beliefs in the everyday life and rituals of these tribal societies.
But these masks have not been thoroughly researched and are not yet widely known. They have started to emerge on the global scene about thirty years ago and have struck a small number of enthusiasts by their brutal strangeness. One of them was Marc Petit who started collecting them and became one of the first to understand that their brutality was the result of a very clever art form. He donated some exceptional pieces to the musée du quai Branly.
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