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Invitation au voyage

Jeudi des Beaux-Arts
6th May

Invitation to travel
A new open-air exhibition in Rue des Beaux-Arts galleries’ windows

June 3rd, 2021

New Exhibition !

Phantom
War Shield of Papua New Guinea

1st - 30 April, 2021

Now !

New Digital Exhibition
Faces, Visible – Invisible

Faces, visible – invisible

New Publication!

War clubs from Oceania

Katsinam

New AcQuisitions

photo Kachina doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina doll

photo Kachina Doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina Doll

photo Ashanti doll

Africa | Ghana

Ashanti doll

photo Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)

North America

Edward S. Curtis
(1868-1952)

photo Mumuye figure

Africa | Nigeria

Mumuye figure

photo Kachina Doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina Doll

photo Kachina Doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina Doll

photo Maori spear

New AcQuisitions | New Zealand

Maori spear

photo Kachina Doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina Doll

New AcQuisitions | Papua New Guinea

Gope

photo Kachina doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina doll

photo Yup’ik mask

North America | Alaska

Yup’ik mask

photo Lega Mask

Africa | Democratic Republic of the Congo

Lega Mask

photo Malagan mask

New AcQuisitions | New Ireland

Malagan mask

photo Baining Mask

New AcQuisitions | New Britain

Baining Mask

photo Kachina Doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina Doll

photo Punuk tool

North America | Alaska

Punuk tool

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Invitation to Travel: Malagan Ceremony in Tabar -

Invitation to Travel: Malagan Ceremony in Tabar - Episode 2
Tatanua Dance

#Throwback to February 2020, when I went on a field trip to New Ireland, Papua New Guinea…

It was the experience of a lifetime!
I shot this video on the second day of the Malagan, during one of the most emblematic dances known in Oceania.
The ritual starts with a single Tatanua dancer performing at the center of the village. One by one, 5 other masked figures soon join him in the dance.

Grace and power combined...

Stay tuned: the Discovery Series will return soon with yet another video from New Ireland!

Even though we cannot travel much these days, @lejeudidesbeauxarts offers an “Invitation au Voyage”, an open-air event in St-Germain-Des-Prés. We look forward to your visit!

#GalleryFarFromHome
#InvitationAuVoyage

#GalerieFlak #JulienFlak #FieldTrip #Voyage #NewIreland #Malagan #Malangan #PapuaNewGuinea #Oceania#Ceremony #Dance #Ritual #InvitationToTravel #Tatanua #GesMask #KipongMask #ArtCollector #ArtCollection #TribalArtExpert #TribalArtGallery #TribalArt #ArtAdvisor

Invitation to Travel: Malagan Ceremony in Tabar -

Invitation to Travel: Malagan Ceremony in Tabar - Episode 1

#Throwback to February 2020, when I went on a field trip to New Ireland, Papua New Guinea…

It was the experience of a lifetime!
I shot this video at dawn on the first day of a Malagan ceremony I attended.
Twelve masked dancers, under the guidance of a ritual leader, wait for the sun to rise.
I am standing next to them, waist-deep in the ocean.
As soon as they start to dance and sing, the Malagan ritual cycle begins…

Stay tuned: the Discovery Series will return soon with more videos from New Ireland!

Even though we cannot travel much these days, @lejeudidesbeauxarts offers an “Invitation au Voyage”, an open-air event in St-Germain-Des-Prés. We look forward to your visit!

#GalleryFarFromHome
#InvitationAuVoyage

#GalerieFlak #JulienFlak #FieldTrip #Voyage #NewIreland #Tabar #Malagan #Malangan #PapuaNewGuinea #Oceania#Ceremony #Dance #Ritual #InvitationToTravel #GesMask #KipongMask #ArtCollector #ArtCollection #TribalArtExpert #TribalArtGallery #TribalArt #ArtAdvisor

“They are the most beautiful things in the wor

“They are the most beautiful things in the world…”: this was how French poet Paul Éluard described kachina dolls in “Letters to Gala” (1927)

This poetic and early kachina doll is a Rain Messenger known as "Sio Shalako" (“Sio” means "from the Zuni" in Hopi language). The first account of a Sio Shalako ritual dance on the Hopi mesas dates back to the 1850s.
In the pioneering essay "Dolls of the Tusayan Indians", published in 1894, Jesse Walter Fewkes illustrated another early example of Sio Shalako katsina (page 19, plate VIII).
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Sio Shalako Katsina doll
Hopi, Arizona
Circa 1900
Height: 23.5 cm (9 ¼ in.)

Provenance:
Ex collection Steve Nelson, California
Ex private collection, California
Ex Bonhams San Francisco, December 2017
Ex private collection, New York

#GalerieFlak #JulienFlak #Kachina #Hopi #Pueblo #Katsina #Arizona #Surrealism #Surrealist #PaulEluard #Gala #NativeAmericanArt #ArtCollector #ArtCollection #TribalArtExpert #TribalArtGallery #TribalArt #ArtAdvisor

Invitation to Travel: Malagan Ceremony in Tabar -

Invitation to Travel: Malagan Ceremony in Tabar - Episode 2
Tatanua Dance

#Throwback to February 2020, when I went on a field trip to New Ireland, Papua New Guinea…

It was the experience of a lifetime!
I shot this video on the second day of the Malagan, during one of the most emblematic dances known in Oceania.
The ritual starts with a single Tatanua dancer performing at the center of the village. One by one, 5 other masked figures soon join him in the dance.

Grace and power combined...

Stay tuned: the Discovery Series will return soon with yet another video from New Ireland!

Even though we cannot travel much these days, @lejeudidesbeauxarts offers an “Invitation au Voyage”, an open-air event in St-Germain-Des-Prés. We look forward to your visit!

#GalleryFarFromHome
#InvitationAuVoyage

#GalerieFlak #JulienFlak #FieldTrip #Voyage #NewIreland #Malagan #Malangan #PapuaNewGuinea #Oceania#Ceremony #Dance #Ritual #InvitationToTravel #Tatanua #GesMask #KipongMask #ArtCollector #ArtCollection #TribalArtExpert #TribalArtGallery #TribalArt #ArtAdvisor

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