Prelimanery study for Berber landscape

http://www.gateway-africa.com/tribe/berber_tribe.html

http://www.essortment.com/all/berbersnorthaf_rori.htm

http://www.arab.de/arabinfo/berbers.htm

Desert Festivals in Mali

Other festivals include:
Cure Salee Festival in the oasis of In-Gall, Niger
Sabeiba Festival in Ganat (Djanet) Algeria
Shiriken Festival in Akabinu (Akoubounou) Niger
Takubelt Tuareg Festival in Mali
Festival in Aghat Libya - Ghat
Desert Festival in Mali
Berber and Tuareg Festival in Libya - Ghadames

Latest News from David Norden - Brussels

African Antiques Newsletter June 2008
by David Norden.

I hope you will be able to visit me next week in Brussel. Most events take place from Wednesday till Sunday.
You can read most details about the updated Brussel events, Bruneaf and other activities - Bruneaf 2008 and related events
David Norden, an independent dealer not a member from any organisation invites you in Brussels from 4 to 8 June 2008 as a guest of Antiques Carl Reyntens at the rue Watteeu 27, 1000 Brussels, a street between the rue des Minimes and the rue Ernest Allard . Also don't forget to visit Dr. Jan Baptist Bedaux from Utrecht who just opened a gallery in Brussels near the Sablon.
There are also many auctions; a few of them with ethnic jewelry and other interesting things at Pierre Bergé, and after the Bruneaf several auctions in Paris by Christies, Sotheby's, and Artcurial, those interested in auctions can read my Big Auction Alerts calendar June 2008 .
I will be in Paris at the Artcurial and Christies auction after the Bruneaf.
More readings:
Collecting African Art Into the Realm of the Supernatural
EBay Auction Tips And Tricks For Success, for those of you who buy or sell African Art or other stuff online.
Peggy Guggenheim African Art collection. Ethnopassion: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection on View at Galleria Gottardo LUGANO.- From 28 May to 23 August 2008, the Galleria Gottardo in Lugano will be holding the world's first exhibition of the ethnic artworks collected by one of the twentieth century's greatest art patrons: Peggy Guggenheim. The idea behind the exhibition is to display the "exotic objects" that embellished the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni during the collector's lifetime.

David Norden
Tel +32 3 227.35.40





Ethnopassion: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection on View at Galleria Gottardo
http://milenerust.blogspot.com/2008/06/homage-to-peggy-guggenheim-collage.html

Aduno koro. Info: Galleria Gottardo
Tel. +41 91 808 1988
Fax +41 91 808 2447

galleria@gottardo.com http://www.galleria-gottardo.org/
or in english:
Ethnopassion Mostra

LUGANO.- From 28 May to 23 August, the Galleria Gottardo in Lugano will be holding the world's first exhibition of the ethnic artworks collected by one of the twentieth century's greatest art patrons: Peggy Guggenheim. The idea behind the exhibition is to display the "exotic objects" that embellished the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni during the collector's lifetime. Since her death, they have been carefully restored and examined by scientific researchers. The restoration project was jointly launched by Galleria Gottardo, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the Museum of Cultures in Lugano with the aim of rediscovering the specific meaning of each object in itself and in the context in which it was purchased.

Peggy Guggenheim's passion for ethnic art dated back to the period of her tempestuous relationship with Max Ernst, who was a keen collector of this kind of art. When their relationship broke down in 1943, the artist left with all the works in his collection. After settling permanently in Venice and opening her collection to the general public, Peggy rekindled her interest in ethnic art, and, from 1959, she began to acquire works and exhibit them in her home, mixing them with contemporary artworks as she felt inclined. She developed a genuine passion, an involuntary, unconscious attraction for these objects, which was rooted in purelyphenomenal interest: she never felt a great need to find out more about their meaning and value. She appreciated their decorative nature, using them as a means of enhancing her interior design and keeping up with the latest fashions.Based on photographs from the period and the scarce information available on the subject, it is thought that her private collection consisted of around 50 artworks, mainly from Africa and Oceania; 35 of these remained in the estate of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, where they have been conserved in the museum’s art storage.The exotic artefacts had always been considered valuable as part of Peggy's collection, but with uncertainty about the intrinsic value of the items in question when examined outside the classical canons of conventionally understood art in the West.One of the aims of the “Ethnopassion” exhibition is to transform this view, giving these objects not just the value that they have in the intellectual context that fanned Peggy Guggenheim's interest for ethnic art, but also an anthropological value arising from the study of the objects and their links with various periods and cultures.The mandate for the scientific analysis of the collection was given to the Museum of Cultures of the City of Lugano, under the direction of Francesco Paolo Campione. Thanks to him and his staff, in-depth analysis, including the accurate restoration of the objects, the creation of frames and supports, philological research and scientific classification of the works, visitors to the Galleria Gottardo can admire these artworks in their new found splendour and let their imaginations wander in the magical atmosphere that reigned in Peggy Guggenheim's palace on the banks of Venice’s Canal Grande, where art, style, passion and creativity met.The exhibition is curated by Franco Rogantini, Director of Galleria Gottardo and by Philip Rylands, Director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.

Galleries
Below is a list of galleries, dealers, experts, auction houses and booksellers that are partners of TRIBAL ART Magazine. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of tribal art resources.A comprehensive list of dealers can be found in our series of Tribal Art Resource Guides.

Galleries

Marble Shade
NJ
U.S.A.
Affrica
Washington
DC
U.S.A.
Galerie Afrique
St Maur
France
Akanyi
Seattle
WA
U.S.A.
Amrouche
Paris
France
La Galerie Antenna
Dakar
Senegal
Arte y Ritual
Madrid
Spain
ArtTrak.com
Dallas
TX
U.S.A.
ASA Archäometrie
Wadgassen-Werbeln
Germany
Auctions By The Bay
Alameda
California
U.S.A.
Bangally African Expo, Inc.
New York
NY
U.S.A.
Joan Barist
New York
NY
U.S.A.
David Bernstein
New York
NY
U.S.A.
Bonhams
New York
NY
U.S.A.
Bonhams & Butterfields
San Francisco
CA
U.S.A.
Samir Borro
Bruxelles
Belgium
Galerie Alain Bovis
Paris
France
The Carr Collection
Los Angeles
CA
U.S.A.
Caskey-Lees
Topanga
CA
U.S.A.
Olivier Castellano
Paris
France
CMG Books & Art
Mississauga
ON
Canada
Kevin Conru
Bruxelles
Belgium
Dandrieu - Giovagnoni
Rome
Italy
Pierre Dartevelle
Bruxelles
Belgium
Douglas Dawson
Chicago
IL
U.S.A.
Bernard De Grunne
Bruxelles
Belgium
Craig De Lora
NJ
U.S.A.
Dave DeRoche
Piedmont
CA
U.S.A.
Joshua Dimondstein
Los Angeles
CA
U.S.A.
Galerie Dodier
Le Val Saint-Père
France
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TOP ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Pablo Picasso
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Gustav Klimt
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Paul Cézanne
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Claude Monet
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Georges Braque
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Marcel Duchamp
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Jackson Pollock
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Paul Gauguin
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Henri Matisse
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Willem De Kooning
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Egon Schiele
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Wassily Kandinsky
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Andy Warhol
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Francis Bacon
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Constantin Brancusi
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Piet Mondrian
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Amedeo Modigliani
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Auguste Rodin
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Paul Klee
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Martin Kippenberger
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Frida Kahlo
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Edvard Munch
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Chaim Soutine
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Lucian Freud
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Joan Miró
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René Magritte
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Alberto Giacometti
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Mark Rothko
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Cy Twombly
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Henry Moore
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Richard Serra
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Joseph Beuys
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Max Ernst
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Henri Rousseau
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Robert Rauschenberg
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Edward Hopper
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Arshile Gorky
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Èdouard Vuillard
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Donald Judd
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Kasimir Malevich
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Pierre Bonnard
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Cindy Sherman
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Francis Picabia
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Paula Rego
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Barnett Newman
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Marlene Dumas
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Bruce Nauman
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Max Beckmann
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Gerhard Richter
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Pierre Auguste Renoir
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Jasper Johns
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Louise Bourgeois
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Otto Dix
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Roy Lichtenstein
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David Hockney
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Alexander Calder
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Jeff Koons
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Odilon Redon
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Sigmar Polke
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Yves Klein
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Jean Arp
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Luc Tuymans
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Lucio Fontana
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Fernand Léger
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Eva Hesse
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Balthus
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Philip Guston
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Chuck Close
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David Smith
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Franz Marc
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George Grosz
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Franz Kline
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Clyfford Still
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Bridget Riley
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Anselm Kiefer
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Kurt Schwitters
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Joseph Cornell
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Sol LeWitt
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Ed Ruscha
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Nan Goldin
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Georg Baselitz
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Aleksandr Rodchenko
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Paul Signac
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Gordon Matta-Clark
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Brice Marden
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Carl Andre
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Jeff Wall
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Claes Oldenburg
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Gilbert & George
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Robert Smithson
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Richard Prince
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Hans Bellmer
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Bernd And Hilla Becher
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Eric Fischl
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Robert Ryman
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Duane Hanson
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Matthew Barney
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Juan Gris
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Georgia O'Keeffe

ART GALLERIES IN SOUTH AFRICA

34 Long Fine Art 34 Long Street Cape Town 8001 Tel. +27 21 426 4594 Fax. +27 21 426 4594 http://www.34long.com/http://www.34long.com/fineart@34long.com

Artspace Durban 3 Millar Road Durban 4001 Tel. +27 31 312 0793 Fax. +27 31 312 0793 http://www.artspacedurban.co.za/artspace_durban@yahoo.com

Artspace Fine Art Gallery 3 Hetty Avenue Johannesburg (South Africa) Tel. +27 011 678 7206 http://www.artspace.co.za/http://www.artspace.co.za/http://www.artspace.co.za/artspace@wol.co.za

Ava Gallery 35 Church Street Cape Town 8001 Tel. +27-21 424-7436 Fax. +27-21 423-2637 http://www.ava.co.za/http://www.ava.co.za/art@ava.co.za

Bell-roberts Contemporary 89 Bree Street Cape Town 8001 Tel. +27 (0)21 422 1100 Fax. +27(0) 21 86 656 5931http://www.bell-roberts.com/info@bell-roberts.com

Blankprojects 198 buitengracht str, bo-kaap cape town 8001 Tel. *27 721989221 Fax. *2721 4241675 http://blankprojects.blogspot.com/http://blankprojects.blogspot.com/blankprojects@gmail.com

David Krut Arts Resource 140 Jan Smuts AvenueJohannesburg (South Africa) Tel. +27 011 880 4242 http://www.davidkrutpublishing.com/

Erdmann Contemporary/photo Gallery Za 63 Shortmarket Street 8001 Cape Town South Africa Cape Town Tel. 27 21 422 2762 Fax. 27 21 422 3278 http://www.erdmanncontemporary.co.za/http://www.erdmanncontemporary.co.za/photogallery@mweb.co.za

Everard Read, Cape Town Everard Read Cape Town 3 Portswood Road Victoria and Alfred Waterfront Cape Town 8002 Tel. +27 21 418 4527 Fax. +27 21 418 4524 http://www.everard-read-capetown.co.za/ctgallery@everard.co.za

Everard Read Gallery 6 Jellicoe Avenue Johannesburg 2196 (South Africa) Tel. +27 11 788 4805 Fax. +27 11 788 5914 http://www.everardread.co.za/http://www.everardread.co.za/gallery@everard.co.za

Focus Contemporary Shop 4, 2 Long st. Cnr Loop st & Hans Strijdom avenue cape town 8001 Tel. 0027 21 419 8880 Fax. 0027 21 419 8888 http://www.focuscontemporary.co.za/http://www.focuscontemporary.co.za/max@focuscontemporary.co.za

Gallery On The Square Shop 32 Nelson Mandela Square Cnr 5th & Maude Streets Sandton Central Johannesburg2196 Tel. ++ 27 11 784 2847 Fax. ++ 27 11 784 2849 http://www.galleryonthesquare.co.za/http://www.galleryonthesquare.co.za/gots@mweb.co.za

Hout Bay Gallery 71 Victoria Avenue Hout Bay Cape Town Western Cape South Africa Cape Town 7806 Tel. 021 790 3618 Fax. 021 790 3898 http://www.houtbaygallery.co.za/art@houtbaygallery.co.za

Iart Gallery 71 LOOP STREET CAPE TOWN 8001 Tel. 0027-21-424 5150 Fax. 0021-21-424 5160 http://www.iart.co.za/http://www.iart.co.za/http://www.iart.co.za/info@iart.co.za

Irma Stern Gallery Cecil Road, Rosebank Cape Town8000 Tel. +27(0)21 685 5686 http://www.irmastern.co.za/http://www.irmastern.co.za/Mary.VanBlommestein@uct.ac.za

Joao Ferreira Gallery 70 Loop StreetCape Town 8001 Tel. +27 21 423 5403 Fax. +27 088 021 423 2136 http://www.joaoferreiragallery.com/http://www.joaoferreiragallery.com/info@joaoferreiragallery.com

Leigh-ann Crafford Cape Town 7945 Tel. 2443657568768769 http://www.myspace.com/punkishicemopinboard@yahoo.co.uk

Mahlase Art Images 11 Senaoane Koma Road Soweto Johannesburg 1818 Tel. +27 11 984 8491Fax. n/ahttp://n/amahlaseartimages@webmail.co.za

Rose Korber Art 48 Sedgemoor Road Camps Bay Cape Town 8005 Tel. + 27 (0)21 4389152 Fax. + 27 (0)21 4386262 http://www.rosekorberart.com/roskorb@icon.co.za

Soni Art Studio No. 3 Soni Road Crawford 7780 Cape Town 7780 Tel. +27 (0)21 697 3975 Fax. +27 (0)21 697 3975 http://www.soniartstudio.com/http://www.soniartstudio.com/info@soniartstudio.com

The Cape Gallery The Cape Gallery 60 Church Street Cape Town 8001 South Africa Cape Town 8001 Tel. +27 (021) 423 5309 http://www.capegallery.co.za/info@capegallery.co.za

The Cape Gallery 60 Church street Cape Town 8000 Tel. +27 21 423 5309 Fax. +27 21 424 9063 http://www.capegallery.co.za/web@capegallery.co.za

The Gallery At Duncan Yard c/o Duncan and Prospect str. Hatfield Pretoria South Africa Pretoria 0083 Tel. +2782 8261 298 Fax. 0866406287 thegallery.cecily@gmail.com

The Goodman Gallery 163 Jan Smuts Avenue Johannesburg 2193 (South Africa) Tel. +27 0 11 788 1113 Fax. +27 0 11 788 9887 http://www.goodman-gallery.com/goodman@iafrica.com

The White House Gallery The White House Gallery 1 Pretoria Street cnr 4th Street Oaklands Johannesburg2192 Tel. 27 11 483 3537 Fax. 27 11 483 3526 http://www.thewhitehousegallery.com/thewhitehousegallery@tiscali.co.za

Veo Gallery 33 Long Street Cape Town OR 28 Jarvis St De Waterkant Cape Town 8001 Tel. +27 21 423 7069 or +27 21 421 3278 Fax. +27 21 4184177 http://www.veo.co.za/http://www.veo.co.za/info@veo.co.za

Worldart Cape Town 54 Church Street, Cape Town Cape Town 8000 Tel. +27 21 423 3075 http://www.worldart.co.za/info@worldart.co.za

Multimedia: "Zulu Music" - Patterns of thought.

Multimedia: "Indigo Fields" - 2008
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Read more:
http://www.fullpassport.com/Trip2001/Diary/dec-13.html

http://www.adire.clara.net/indigogallery.htm
http://www.adire.clara.net/indigointroduction.htm
http://www.indigoarts.com/gallery_africanart_textil5.html
http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Nigeria/Yankari/blog-240407.html

Collage: Multimedia - "Integrated Thought"

For Andre: "Gesamtkunstwerk/Pink Floyd-"The writing is on the wall "
Music: "La Coutte D'Or-From St. Germain (Tourist) - Track 8
Guest: Ernest Rangun
Composer: Zudovic Navanne
Background: Wagner's Parsifal.

"The characteristic mark of Wagner's thought in its astounding unity, a unity of things far removed in time, and a gathering together of the heterogeneous under a single point of view.
In general too, this is perhaps the most prominent quality of artistic thought founded on observation and intuition. Of any dialectic process (in the sense of Hegel), every conception evolving necessarily into its opposite, the two then combining to a new, synthetic conception, and son on, there is here no trace; it is al organic growth - growth by "introssusception" in which the new elements do not destroy the old ones, but penetrate and expand them. In this way does the oak grow from a seed-germ to the "Monarch of the Forest": in this way grew Wagner's thoughts."

Term: "Gesamtkunstwerk" (total/integrated or complete Artwork) - German term attributed to the German opera composer Richard Wagner.

http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/timeline/Wagner.html

Mutimedia- From Wagner to Virtual Reality.

Movies
John Williams - Star Wars
Rock composer Jim Steinman - created Wagnerian Rock
John Boorman - Excalibur
Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now

Wagner Quates:
"Joy is not in things; it's in us."
"Imagination creates reality."

• New Systems of thought: "I Ching and the African Renaissance."

Andre Venter

http://www.nomadicexploration.net/

http://www.nomadicexploration.blogspot.com/

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile//90189.html

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/2008/05/saatchi_online_artists_at_scop.php

Multimedia: "Dali in Africa"

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/a/90189.html

copyright MRust 2008

"There is no dominant painting style in Surrealism. Considered from the point of view of technique it exhibited three main tendencies. The first tendency (which proved in the short term to be the most innovatory in terms of physical working methods) was that of discovering imagery by mechanical techniques where chance was exploited. The purpose was to 'irritate' the vision, to stimulate the imagination and to force inspiration.

Andre Breton's phrase 'pure psychic automatism' was intended to apply to the process of writing and Breton even gave practical hints on how to do it. In 1930 he published his second Manifeste du surréalisme in which he defined 'surreality' as the reconciliation of the reality of dreams with the reality of everyday life into a higher synthesis.
Underlying the interest in automatism and dream lay the Surrealist notion of what was called 'objective chance'. They believed that the existence of coincidences (events for which there were no rational explanations) was evidence and that true reality was not ordered or logical. Access to reality could only be gained through the unconscious mind.

Multimedia: "Valencia Vessel" - 2008

COLLECTING AFRICAN ART/INTERVIEWS/AUCTIONS- PDF CATALOGUE

Interviews: http://www.tribalcollections.co.za/articles.htm

Galleries - Totem Meneghelli Galleries
Partner of Tribal Art magazine

Totem Meneghelli Galleries2 President St. Germiston 1400 Johannesburg South Africa
+27 (011) 873-1266
+27 (011) 825-1595

http://www.totemgallery.co.za/

http://www.ezakwantu.com/

http://www.thecollector.org.za/

http://www.africanartexpress.com/

Click below to see photostream of African Ceramics collected for Investment Company in the USA - CONTACT DETAILS: http://www.tribalcollections.co.za/contact.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27395668@N03/show/

Daniel Rootenberg - Jacaranda Tribal - http://www.jacarandatribal.com/

About the Company
Jacaranda Tribal was formed to meet the growing interest in the traditional arts of South and East Africa. Jacaranda Tribal offers museum-quality pieces to both collectors and museum curators. We are an internet-only gallery, offering visitors the convenience of buying over the internet with the security of knowing that the authenticity of all our works offered for sale is guaranteed.

About the Director
Daniel Rootenberg, the Director of Jacaranda Tribal, is a native of South Africa. He resides in New York City but travels frequently to South Africa. Pieces from his private collection have been on display at the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City and are now on exhibit at the exhibition celebrating the reopening of the Neuberger Museum of African Art, Purchase College, New York. Beadwork from the collection will also be on display in the important upcoming show titled African Beaded Art: Power and Adornment, curated by John Pemberton and to be held at Smith College, Massachusetts in 2008.



THE POWER OF SPIRIT.


Some 550 art objects will be offered in the 54th Tribal Art auction on July 5th, 2008 at Zemanek-Münster in Würzburg.
Date: 2008, July 5, Start: 2 pm
African and Oceanic Tribal Art from European private collections.

Preview:

Auctionhouse: Zemanek-MünsterSchildhof 2 / Corner Neubaustrasse Tel: +49 931 17721 Fax: +49 931 17736
Date: 2008, July 5, Start: 2 pm
African and Oceanic Tribal Art from European private collections
Preview:
download catalogue as pdf browse online catalogue order the catalogue

Multimedia: "Change through Automatic drawing" - "Introspective thought"

Stylistic Analysis.

Automatic drawing (distinguished from drawn expression of mediums) was developed by the surrealists, as a means of expressing the subconscious. In automatic drawing, the hand is allowed to move 'randomly' across the paper. In applying chance and accident to mark-making, drawing is to a large extent freed of rational control. Hence the drawing produced may be attributed in part to the subconscious and may reveal something of the psyche, which would otherwise be repressed. Examples of automatic drawing were produced by mediums and practitioners of the psychic arts. It was though by some Spiritualists to be a spirit control that was producing the drawing whilst physically taking control of the mediums body.

"In these days it is important for an artist to grasp that the logical exploratory voyage of reason is the finest process of the mind. Every other activity is a form of regression...thus the much-vaunted "night mind"; the subconscious world of myth and nostalgia, the child, the imagination and instinctual drives, though richer, stronger and more powerful than the world of reason...never the less owes its strength to our falling back on all that is primitive and infantile; it is an act of cowardice to the God in Man."
Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave, 1944.

"Free Association" - technique of continuously relating anything which comes into the mind - the technique assumes that all memories are arranged in a single associative network, and that sooner or later the subject will stumble across the crucial memory.

Multimedia: "Male&Female-Ndisibi signs-2008

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Multimedia: "Male-Female - Ndisibi signs - 2008

Collage: "Earth and Water"

Jewellery: "Black Fur"

Collage -"Blueprint': Voyage up Niger and Nsidibi signs - 2008

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Collage-Multimedia - 2008

"Blueprint" - Free associationism.

Voyage up Niger and Nsibidi signs.

New Editions - Multimedia

"Blueprint" - May 2008