Charles Ratton
dal 24/6/2013 al 21/9/2013
Segnalato da
24/6/2013
Charles Ratton
Quai Branly Museum, Paris
L'invention des arts primitifs. This exhibition gives an opportunity to highlight the view of Charles Ratton, an expert, dealer and collector who changed the history of the way primitive art was received.
This exhibition gives an opportunity to highlight the view of Charles Ratton, an expert, dealer and collector who changed the history of the way “primitive” art was received, by promoting objects which moved away from the taste for “negro” art that had prevailed up to that time.
His close involvement in the museum world and his scientific curiosity, shown in the richness of his archives, helped his expertise to flourish. His activities as an expert, and the exhibitions he organised, contributed to the shift in status of works from Africa, America and Oceania: from anthropological study objects to works of art in the 1930s, then masterpieces in the 1960s, in France but also in the United States.
The portrayal of his links with the artists — the Surrealists, Dubuffet — and photography — “documentary” and artistic photography: Man Ray — helps to highlight this shift towards art and history. The exhibition of objects from the “Early Periods” enables us to appreciate the nuances and context of Charles Ratton’s taste for objects which were ultimately an “entertainment” for him, the earlier illuminating the later and vice versa.
Image: Dessin réalisé par des garçons de 10 à 15 ans Dessin sur papier dactylographié © musée du quai Branly — Photo : Claude Germain
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