Two Exhibitions
dal 1/6/2009 al 26/9/2009
Segnalato da
1/6/2009
Two Exhibitions
Metropolitan Museum of Art - MET, New York
"Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages" examines in depth the achievements of the medieval draftsman, includes many works that have never before been lent outside their home countries. "African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting" displays more than thirty highlights.
Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
June 2, 2009–August 23, 2009
Galleries for Drawings, Prints, and Photographs, 2nd floor
With strokes of genius, artists in the Middle Ages explored the medium of drawing, creating a rich array of works ranging from spontaneous sketches, to powerful evocations of spirituality, to intriguing images of science and the natural world. This exhibition, the first to examine in depth the achievements of the medieval draftsman, includes many works that have never before been lent outside their home countries. Through some fifty examples created in settings as diverse as ninth-century monastic scriptoria to the fourteenth-century French court, the presentation considers the aesthetics, uses, and techniques of medieval drawings, mastered by artists working centuries before the dawn of the Renaissance. Early maps, artists’ sketchbooks, and masterfully decorated manuscripts count among the important loans from American and European museums, and the great national, university, and monastic libraries of Europe.
The exhibition is made possible by the Michel David-Weill Fund.
Additional support is provided by Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg.
The catalogue is made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
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African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
June 2, 2009–September 27, 2009
Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas—The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, 1st floor
The collections of African and Oceanic art in the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva, begun in the 1920s by Josef Mueller and continued by Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller, represent the culmination of more than eight decades of wide-ranging collecting of works from both regions. Presenting more than thirty highlights from the Barbier-Mueller’s holdings of African and Oceanic sculpture, most never before displayed in the United States, this exhibition explores a rich legacy of connoisseurship. The African works in the exhibition—sculpture and masks from western, eastern, and central Africa, from miniature to monumental in scale, made of wood, ivory, metal, and terracotta—illustrate both the creativity of the continent’s artists and the discerning eye of the collectors. The Oceanic works, an array of rare and spectacular objects that exemplify the breadth of achievement by artists from across the Pacific, include a striking group of figures, masks, and decorative art from Polynesia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Indonesia, and other areas.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
The exhibition is made possible by Vacheron Constantin.
It was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in collaboration with the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva.
Image: Power Figure, Nkisi Nkondi, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Kongo peoples, 18th–19th century. Wood, nails, iron, fabric; H. 38 1/8 in. (97 cm). Provenance: St. Peter Clavier Sodalität Mission, Freiburg, Switzerland, before 1914; Josef Mueller, ca. 1950
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