tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75086504302808515692024-02-07T00:12:59.382-08:00MILENE RUSTARTIST/DESIGNER/COLLECTORMilene Rusthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032913263386302048noreply@blogger.comBlogger377125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7508650430280851569.post-39368235129900320372017-10-23T08:49:00.003-07:002017-10-23T08:49:49.846-07:00Time Out on Pinagbuyutan Island, El Nido.. Phillippines.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Milene Rusthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032913263386302048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7508650430280851569.post-14898803411466711442017-10-23T08:47:00.000-07:002017-10-23T08:47:05.567-07:00Masai Jewelley.<a href="http://theconversation.com/saviez-vous-que-les-perles-des-masa-venaient-deurope-84532?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebookbutton">http://theconversation.com/saviez-vous-que-les-perles-des-masa-venaient-deurope-84532?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebookbutton</a>Milene Rusthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032913263386302048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7508650430280851569.post-44676906751311397802017-07-21T11:16:00.001-07:002017-07-21T11:16:19.326-07:00Imo Dara. https://www.imodara.com/magazine/collector-spotlight-the-achmanns-germany/ Milene Rusthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032913263386302048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7508650430280851569.post-22912232113077756382017-05-24T11:55:00.004-07:002017-05-24T11:55:53.842-07:00Art. Mixed Media Works. <a href="https://theartstack.com/artist/milene-rust/drawing-she-wolf?product_referrer_user_id=430097496">https://theartstack.com/artist/milene-rust/drawing-she-wolf?product_referrer_user_id=430097496</a>Milene Rusthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032913263386302048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7508650430280851569.post-50641863273569729162017-05-24T10:58:00.003-07:002017-05-24T11:03:33.589-07:00Imo Dara. Online Interview with african art collector - Sindika Dokolo.<a href="https://www.imodara.com/magazine/interview-with-african-art-collector-sindika-dokolo/">https://www.imodara.com/magazine/interview-with-african-art-collector-sindika-dokolo/</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "roboto" , "arial"; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: center; word-spacing: 1px;">Connecting African art collectors with dealers, based on a foundation of knowledge about the origin, use & distinguishing features of listed pieces.</span>Milene Rusthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032913263386302048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7508650430280851569.post-76920493143515734172016-08-20T01:31:00.002-07:002016-08-20T01:31:59.748-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Milene Rusthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032913263386302048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7508650430280851569.post-54716165342608021842016-04-30T05:43:00.000-07:002016-04-30T05:43:12.547-07:00African Art Market.<a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/371014-the-tribal-art-market-lessons-from-africa/">http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/371014-the-tribal-art-market-lessons-from-africa/</a>Milene Rusthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032913263386302048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7508650430280851569.post-42874584743343414642016-04-29T01:50:00.001-07:002016-04-29T01:50:39.196-07:00Winter Designs 2016 Miro/Folk Art/Cattalan Surrealist.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><strong style="background-color: black; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Published by Stonegate in hardback on 10<sup style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">th</sup> April 2014, priced £35</strong><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span><strong style="background-color: black; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A highly personal journey to reveal the hidden magic of the mask of the remarkable Bolon maskers and mask-makers in a remote corner of Burkina Faso, West Africa.</strong><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span><strong style="background-color: black; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Photographer and African art collector Michel de Combes travelled extensively in West Africa over a period of fifteen years from the late 1980s, researching and documenting Bolon masks. He journeyed alone, staying in remote villages for up to five months of the year, capturing the masks and mask-making on film. His drive to understand the magic of the mask has resulted in this unique project; an unsurpassed collection of photographs of masks from one of the most remote areas of Africa. Together, the book and DVD present images never before published, giving a remarkable insight into a secret world of ritual performance. </span><strong style="background-color: black; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Michel de Combes</strong><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> is a well-respected photographer and African art collector residing in South Africa and France. </span><em style="background-color: black; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Magic of the Mask</em><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> is his first book.</span></span>Milene Rusthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032913263386302048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7508650430280851569.post-34550458494242119352014-07-23T07:14:00.002-07:002014-07-23T07:14:29.279-07:00Kanibale Exhibition<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKWjlHlh-iA&feature=share">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKWjlHlh-iA&feature=share</a>Milene Rusthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032913263386302048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7508650430280851569.post-39413704146054648972014-07-23T06:51:00.002-07:002014-07-23T07:05:20.067-07:00New Master Piece Range/Woodabee Black/White July 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="color: #4b380d; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The Bamana (Bambara) Tribe</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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</spacer>The Bamana are one of the most studied groups of West Africa. They say
that they are of Mandinke origin and have tightly interwoven themselves with
their neighbors through marriage, commercial trade, political alliances, and
religion. The triangle of the Bamana region, divided in two parts by the Niger
River, constitutes the greater part of the western and southern Mali of today.
The dry savanna permits no more than a subsistence economy, and the soil
produces, with some difficulty, millet, rice, and beans.Arabic texts of the
ninth century give the history of cities such as Djenne and Timbuktu, whose inhabitants
they call "Bambara." At the beginning of the twentieth century, they
were colonized by the French.<br />
Numbering 1.9 million, the Bamana are distributed over regions that comprise
villages placed under the authority of one family, whose head, the fama,
representing the founder, enjoys considerable powers. He also plays a primary
role in the agrarian rituals.<br />
In 1940, archeologists discovered the traces of an earlier kingdom and found
terra-cotta figures that were dated through thermoluminescent tests to around
the year 1000. These terra-cottas are proof of a long tradition of sculpture;
the first wood figures date back to the fourteenth century.<br />
The Bamana believe in the existence of spiritual forces which are activated by
individuals, who are capable of creating an atmosphere of harmony, prosperity,
and well-being. The Bamana have a very complex cosmology. Initiation takes
place within the men's associations, which are more or less active depending on
the village: the n'tomo, the komo that directs the life of the community; the
nama, the komo that regulates morality violations; and the koré and the tyi
wara, which organize young farmers. These societies, run by ancestors, act in
political, economic, and medical capacity and exercise social control over the
community.<br />
In the south of the Bamana region, the dyo association welcomes men and women,
but initiation is shorter and less difficult for the latter; initiation for men
lasts for seven years and ends with their symbolic death and their rebirth. It
terminates in great masked feasts in which the newly initiated participate,
going from village to village. The initiates are divided into groups, and the
sons of blacksmiths dance in the presence of statues called nyeleni - upright
female figures with wide, flat shoulders, standing on small circular -bases.
Their cone-shaped breasts project frontally. (K. Ezra, 1986) During the feasts
of dyo and the ritual of the gwan, linked to fertility, seated figures are
exhibited. Statues of a woman with a child appeared on the market in the 1950s.
Kept on the shrines throughout the year, the figures were cleaned, oiled,
decorated with clothing and beads, and placed in groups of from two to five
pieces. Naturalistic in style, they are of larger dimensions than the majority
of Bamana sculpture. The bodies are massive, sculpted in the round, with wide
shoulders, the features of the face treated with a sweetness and care for
detail. In the same style, representations of musicians and of lance-carrying
warriors are found. These statues illustrate the qualities that the future
initiates must have: beauty, knowledge, and power. Each figure is
"explained" to the initiates and conveys the vital force that
contributes to the cohesion of the village. (K. Ezra)<br />
During the agrarian feasts of the tyi wara association, farmers wear
headdresses in the shape of an antelope, which represents the mythical
character who taught them how to cultivate the land. In order to obtain an
abundant harvest, they dance at the time of planting and harvesting by
imitating the steps of the antelope. The horn is supposed to be the symbol of
the millet's growth.<br />
The komo association, run by the blacksmiths, welcomes all male adolescents
after their circumcision. It has a mask characterized by a huge mouth and antelope
horns to which various elements are added, such as animal jaws. The mask, worn
only by blacksmiths, "dances" in front of the members of the komo.
Its disquieting appearance evokes the bush, and its dangers and its force are
such, they say, that it can kill an adversary.<br />
Each association has its own masks, headdress crests, and marionettes. These
masks appear at times of celebration: at weddings or inaugurations of a market
or under other pretexts. With the help of music, poetry, and history as told by
the griots, these celebrations are both a diversion and a reminder of the
social values of the Bamana. For a young boy, dancing at the time of a
celebration is an opportunity to show his personal abilities and to acquire
prestige. But he will first have to prove his skill and obtain authorization
from the elders to appear in public, which may subsequently be refused if his
first performance is judged to be mediocre.<br />
The Bamana sculpt lovely figures, less naturalistic than their maternity
figures-statuettes representing twins, and doorlocks. Honored and kept in the
village sanctuary or at its outskirts, the boli is an object whose magic
ingredients are hidden in the center of a mixture of clay, wood, tree bark,
roots, horn, jawbones, or precious metals. It may have human strength or assume
the strength of a hippopotamus. It is handled only by the chief or a religious
dignitary; it is "nourished" on blood and millet beer poured into a
tube that goes all the way through it. (S. Brett-Smith.)<br />
The complex symbolic system of the Bamana is reflected in its abundant artistic
output, linked to ritual functions and with varying aesthetic qualities.<br />
S. Brett-Smith, "The Poisonous Child," in RES, no. 6, 1983. G.
Dieterlen, Essai sur la Religion Bambara (Paris: Presses Universitaires
Fran@aises, 1951). K.
Ezra,A,HumanldealinAfrica,nArt:BamanaFig,urativeSculpture(Washington,D.C.:
National Museum of African Art, 1986). R. Goldwater, Bambara Sculpture from the
Western Sudan (New York: The Museum of Primitive Art, 1960). P. J. Imperato,
Buffoom, Queens, and Wooden Horsemen (New York: Kilima House Publishers, 1983).
P. McNaughton, Secret Sculptures of Komo: Art and Power in Bamana Initiation
Associations (Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Working
Papers in the Traditional Arts, no. 4).<o:p></o:p></div>
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W - 25 cm<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">The Songye migrated from the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Sheba</st1:country-region> area to the southern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (ex. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Zaire</st1:country-region>), on the banks of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Lualaba</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place>, settling in the savannah and forested plateau. The Songye follow a patriarchal society and are economically sustained by farming. A central chief known as Yakitenge governs them, who because of his status as chief has some limitations posed on him, he cannot show grief, he can’t drink in public and can’t shake hands with men.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">Traditionally, the Songye relied on farming and hunting for subsistence. Fishing was not practiced unless it was during times of dire need, as rivers were associated with the spirits of deceased chiefs whose burial ceremonies often took place in the rivers. The pottery and weaving made by the Songye women and metal work by the men were regularly traded with neighboring peoples.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">The Songye <i>Bwadi Ba <b>Kifwebe</b></i> society enjoys extreme respect among its people. This society includes individuals with supernatural power <i>(basha masende)</i> who are believed to be able to manipulate spirits by means of magical techniques. The <i>Kifwebe </i>masqueraders wear the mask with a woven costume and a long raffia beard. The masks with a central crest are male and the size of the mask determines the magical power of the mask. Danced at initiation, circumcision and funeral ceremonies, the male mask is accompanied by a female mask that has no crest. The male masquerader dances in an aggressive, uncontrolled manner to promote social conformity, whereas the ‘female’ masquerader would dance in a gentler and controlled motion thought to be associated with reproduction ceremonies. These masks are also seen carved into the center of shields.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">The Songye are also well known for their power figures, <i>nkisi</i>, which act as ediating vessels containing magical substances that serve as spirit protectors against evil forces. They are to restore and maintain the well being of owners and possess both benevolent and malevolent functions to ensure balance and continuity within the group. Construction of a nkisi is the responsibility of a ritual expert, who would instruct the carver as to size and wood to be used. They are usually male, carved standing on a circular base, their hands resting on their abdomen. Characteristically they have large heads, square chins, open mouths and a triangular nose. Metal is often incorporated in the face of the figure, and a cavity is formed in the abdomen and the head where magical substances, <i>bashimba</i>, are placed to enhance the magical power of the<i>nkisi</i>, the head cavity is normally sealed off by the insertion of a horn, which protrudes up. The larger figures are kept in special huts to protect the entire village, while the smaller ones are to protect individuals, against death and disease. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">The Songye also carved an array of daily use objects such as stools, headrests, bracelets and axes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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