ARTE POPOLARE DELL’AFRICA CENTRO-ORIENTALE, Figura femminile, Fine XX-inizio XXI secolo vasi Paris 1975

Paris 1975

how to capture change and movement on an unchanging surface

and still lifes

along the shore

ARTE POPOLARE DELL’AFRICA CENTRO-ORIENTALE, Figura femminile, Fine XX-inizio XXI secolo vasi Paris 1975Sculpted and pigmented African mahogany statue from Uganda. The style is inspired by the traditions of the Congolese basin, particularly the Songye and Luba tribes. The geometric and chromatic decorations on the face refer to a symbolic language linked to protection and belonging; these are signs that do not have a unique and codified meaning: they were fluid codes, legible only by initiates, and varied from clan to clan. The circle, for example, is