September 20, 2004
德國 "黑潮" 系列之二
Black Gods in Exile
展出兩位巴西藝術家的攝影與錄像作品
所傳遞的是跨過大西洋到南美洲的非洲族裔
以及藝術家再回到非洲拍攝非洲生活的對照實錄
展覽中所呈現的是以新的詮釋方法來觀看"非洲"藝術如何呈現當今世界觀
觀點迥異於純粹的人類學探討或是當代非洲藝術創作大展
尤其非洲世界的宗教藝術與儀式如何在藝術家的眼中呈現新的風貌
此展覽將巡迴德國幾個大城市至明年底
2006年巴黎的網球場展覽廳(曾展出畢卡索.馬格利特與趙無極等大師回顧展)將展出藝術家攝影師非格(Pierre Verger)的大型惠顧展
Black Gods in Exile
On September 1, 2004, the cooperative program Black Gods in Exile celebrates the opening of an exhibition by the photographers Pierre Fatumbi Verger and Mario Cravo Neto and begins its interdisciplinary supporting program at the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin.
The project investigates the cultural transfer in the Transatlantic Triangle (Africa - the Americas - Europe) from the period of slavery up to the present. Special focus is given to the works of visual anthropologists, artists and literary personalities, who deal with the cultures of the 'Black Americas'.
Black Gods in Exile will be officially opened by German state minister of culture Dr. Christina Weiss and the Brazilian minister of culture Gilberto Gil, the project's elected patron. The Brazilian musician-composer Gilberto Gil was a longtime friend of the photographer Pierre Verger and documented his life and work in a widely acclaimed film.
The exhibition - a co-production of the Pierre Verger Foundation in Salvador/Bahia and the Goethe-Institut - will be shown until 2006 at the Museum of World Cultures in Frankfurt a.M., the Linden-Museum in Stuttgart, the Museum of Ethnology in Munich, the Grassi Museum in Leipzig and the Overseas Museum in Bremen. The catalog is published by Das Wunderhorn publishing house, Heidelberg. The project is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
According to UNESCO studies, 12 million slaves were abducted by Europeans to the so-called New World. The collected memory of this atrocity - the greatest theft of human life in world history - was kept alive on the other side of the Atlantic in ritual practices of the Brazilian Candomblé, Haitian voodoo, and Cuban Santería.
Black Gods in Exile
The Exhibition
No other twentieth-century photographer explored or documented the mutual cultural relationships and continual transfer of knowledge between Europe, Africa and both Americas as thoroughly as Pierre Verger (1902-1996). While in Europe his work remains relatively unknown, in his chosen homeland, Brazil, and reaching into Latin America, Verger has long been considered one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. He played a major role as a forerunner of visual anthropology and also influenced an entire generation of artists, literary personalities and academicians on both sides of the Atlantic. His photographic work, largely created between the 1930s and 1950s, significantly contributed to understanding the (self)image of modern, multiethnic societies in the 'Black Americas' (Roger Bastide). In Germany, Verger became known through Hubert Fichte and Eleonore Mau, whose publications Xango and Petersilie could only be completed thanks to his support.
Black Gods in Exile
Pierre Fatumbi Verger
traveled the five continents as an internationally recognized photojournalist for Paris Soir, Match Magazine, Daily Mirror, LIFE, La Prensa, O Cruzeiro, Unesco Courier, and other publications. It was in the year 1946 that he first went to Salvador de Bahía, henceforth his second home; and alongside his numerous travelogues about Africa, he captured the life of this uncrowned capital of Afro-Brazilian arts and culture (with over 3,000 places of worship) in riveting photographs. Since the 1950s, countless volumes of his photography were published in France and Brazil, but which today are out of print.
Up to his death in 1996, Verger led a modest existence in a suburb of Salvador and was an active member of an Afro-Brazilian religious denomination. Today his former home functions as the Fundaçao Pierre Verger, which makes available for this project various materials from the Verger Estate, consisting of circa 62,000 largely unpublished photographs as well as his library and written correspondence.
Pierre Verger
Presented for the first time in Germany will be more than 300 photographs of the internationally-recognized photographer and forerunner of visual anthropology.
As a photojournalist, Pierre Verger (* 1902, Paris, + 1996, Salvador da Bahia) traveled the five continents and left behind an archive of circa 62,000 negatives. It was in the year 1946 that he first went to Salvador de Bahía, henceforth his second home; and alongside his numerous travelogues about Africa, he captured the life of this uncrowned capital of Afro-Brazilian arts and culture (with over 3,000 places of worship) in riveting photographs.
Mario Cravo Neto
Trance_Territories. Photo-/ Sound Installation, a homage to Pierre Verger
Born in 1947 in Salvador. One of the most important photographers in Brazil. In his own highly poetic manner, Cravo Neto continues the study of the Candomblé initiated by his friend, Pierre Verger.
Black Gods in Exile
The Concept
emphasizes Verger's central importance in the areas of cultural studies, ethnology, and cultural anthropology. The universal approach of this self-taught photographer provided an entire generation of researchers from various fields of study with a new way of viewing multi-ethnical and multi-denominational societies and how they function. Above and beyond that, Verger's friendship and intellectual solidarity with the best-known anthropologists and ethnologists of his time, and with artists and intellectuals of the Parisian surrealist and Brazilian modernismo movements, make him a key figure of the twentieth century Black Gods In Exile gives today's German public the opportunity to rediscover in Pierre Fatumbi Verger an ideal mediator between Africa, Europe and the Americas.
Further venues:
Frankfurt/Main, February - May, 2005
Stuttgart, June - August, 2005
Munich, October, 2005 - January, 2006
Leipzig and Bremen, 2006
Black Gods in Exile
Photo exhibition and supporting program,
September 2004 - Summer 2006
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