" Duality and Beauty :: Africana "
The current selection of statues, masks and objects from West-Africa and from Central Africa are forming the core exhibits of the "Africana" room.
The main theme of the African Collection is called " African Art meets Geometry ". This theme shall guide the interested visitor towards the underlying design concepts of the statues and masks.
Featured artists: Masters of the Lobi (Burkina Faso), Bamana (Mali), Ife (Nigeria), Baulé (Cote D'Ivoire), ...
Style: In the majority of cases, these objects arise out of a very dedicated simple geometric shape, which is dominating the whole design.
The DUALITY constitutes in many of the displayed objects either a couple or a pair or "two of a kind", allowing the visitor to not only study the very specifics of this Native Art, but also to compare between two or more variants designed in the same artistic context.
