With around 120 works by 40 artists, curators Frank Demarest (PAK, Platform for Contemporary Arts) and Sofie Van den Bussche show how contemporary artists have been influenced by the great classical masters. The selection includes: Bart Baele, Johan Creten, Greet Desal, Jan De Vliegher, Lucas Devriendt, Nick Ervinck, Maen Florin, Bart Gielen, Didier Mahieu, Karl Mechnig, Sofie Muller, Femmy Otten, Thom Puckey, Jelle Schouppe, Elisabeth Stienstra, Hans Vandekerckhove, Philip van Isacker, Koen Vanmechelen, Yves Velter, Vadim Vosters…
Art and the sacred in Mumuyeland
€75.00Despite some field research, our knowledge of the sacred among the Mumuye remains embryonic. In all these acephalous groups with a binary and antinomic character, the va complex constitutes a highly varied semantic field in which certain aspects are accentuated according to the circumstances. Religious power is linked to the force contained in sacred objects of which only the elders are the guardians.