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Vaudou @ Fondation Cartier – Paris

31/05/2011

$9,5

Vaoudou, Voodoo, Vodun… I’ve never known how to spell it properly but will always remember watching those black & white Tarzan movies with scary witchcrafts when I was a kid. To recall those hidden fears the Parisian Fondation Cartier has compiled a good bunch of the mysticism & misunderstanding that always surrounds the cult we used to practice being kids… coss you also did right?

Running until September 25th, Vaudou: African Voodoo will present to the public for the first time ever an exceptional selection of Vodun pieces from Benin and Togo drawn from the private collection of Anne and Jacques Kerchache.

Sculpture Vaudou Fon, Benin

French aesthete Jacques Kerchache, a specialist in primitive art, served as a scientific consultant for numerous exhibitions and brought recognition to the primal arts by ushering them into some of the greatest museums in France. He was the driving force behind the Pavillon des Sessions, integrated into the Louvre in 2000, and one of the initiators of the project that led to the inauguration of the Quai Branly Museum in 2006.

Vodun is an ancient religious cult and philosophical tradition originating from the “Slave coast” of West Africa and still active today in the region, as it is practiced by populations from the coasts of Togo to Western Nigeria. Through the slave trade of the 17th and 18th centuries, this religious cult was brought to the Caribbean as well as North and South America where it mixed with Catholicism as well as other religious traditions. Vodun cosmology centers around the Vodun spirits and other elements of divine essence that govern the Earth in a hierarchy that range in power from the major deities that control the forces of nature and human society to the spirits of individual streams, trees and rocks. The followers of Vodun believe there is a link between the visible worlds of the living and the invisible worlds of the spirits. These worlds are allowed to communicate through sacrifice, prayer, possession and divination

Sculpture Vaudou Fon, Benin

Jacques Kerchache worked with the Fondation Cartier on a number of occasions: on the exhibition À visage découvert in 1992, on the exhibition Réflexion sur la mort devoted to the Haitian artist Patrick Vilaire in 1997, and his extraordinary collection of insects was exhibited as part of être nature in 1998. This new exhibition stems from an idea that was often discussed over the years, but Jacques Kerchache died in 2001 before it could come into being. Vodun: African Voodoo is thus a way for the Fondation Cartier to fulfill the wishes of this great connoisseur of African art who was truly fascinated by Vodun.

It obviously doesn’t come cheap (9,5€), but you won’t regret some genuine shivering & goosebumps.

Sculpture Vaudou Fon, Benin

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Date:
31/05/2011
Cost:
$9,5
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Venue

Fondation Cartier
261 Boulevard Raspail
Paris, 75014 France