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Until Sunday October 25th, galleries and museums are mobilizing to maintain the usual October Parisian effervescence of the art world! Galerie Bernard Dulon welcomes you today until 8 pm! We’ll even be open on Sunday afternoon. Among our carefully selected art works, come and discover this beautiful Huaxteque Stele, dating from between the 12th and 15th centuries.

Even in this particular context, the art world remains as dynamic and abundant as ever. Over 200 galleries are participating in this event, to promote the Parisian art scene, and find new ways of meeting with the public!
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Stele
Huaxteque Culture
Mexico
1100 – 1400
Sandstone
Height : 118 cm – 7,1’’
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Le Pari(s) starts today! Come and visit our new show at the gallery to discover some of our most beautiful African and Mexican pieces, we are exceptionally open this afternoon, from 3pm to 6pm! For the whole week, exciting art shows are taking place. Here’s an overview of this arty week in Paris: on Thursday 22nd, we’ll be open until 8pm, and on Sunday 25th, the gallery will be open in the afternoon.

Alongside the 200 galleries participating in Le Pari(s), three art fairs are happening simultaneously, Asia Now, Galeristes and Paris Internationale. Join us for this week to the rhythm of art!
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The Ivory Coast arts have given women various and sometimes surprising representations. These bare many similarities, notably having been designed and crafted by men. From the ideal conception of feminine beauty to the bearer of sometimes troubling powers, the women represented in these sculptures are all subject to a masculine gaze. Furthermore, many of them are used by men in a masculine ritual context.

For the Senufo People, women play a considerable role in the secret masculine society of the poro. They are evidently not admitted in it; however, their presence is tangible through their many sculpted figures. In their visual arts, the Senufo insist on the maternal role of women, either by glorifying the firmness and opulence of their breasts, or by suggesting a pregnancy, or again, as is the case here, by directly representing them as nurturing mothers. An example carved by the same artist is preserved in the collections of the Berg-En-Dal museum.
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Mother and Child Figure
Senufo People
Ivory Coast
19th century (Radiocarbon test)
Wood
Height: 68 cm – 26”
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📸 @hughes_dubois_studio

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For the Dogon People, the awa refers simultaneously to the dance costumes’ fibers, the masks themselves, and the group of men wearing the masks. In certain regions of the cliff and the plateau, anyone circumcised becomes a member of the awa (or mask society): he must carve (or have carved) and wear the mask of his choice to dance during funeral or commemorative ceremonies. The Dogon Mask Society is exclusively masculine, women being banned from any ceremony or activity relating to death to not harm their fertility.
 
Certain zoomorphic masks are also sculpted to protect from the nyama (vital force) of the represented animal. The Dogon mask from the Dodeigne collection, the oldest Dogon mask known to this day, would represent a black monkey.
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Mask “black monkey”
Dogon People�Mali
15th – 17th century (C-14 Test)
Wood
Height: 32 cm – 12,6’’

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Tonight is the nocturnal exhibition of “Rendez-vous”, by the galleries of Saint-Germain-des-Près! Join us for the first edition, more than 60 galleries are participating.

Our current exhibition includes this majestic ancestor figure by the Buyu People of the Democratic Republic of Congo, dating back to the 19th century.
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Ancestor Figure
Buyu People
D. R. of Congo
19th century
Wood
Height: 47,5 cm–18,7”
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📸 @vincent.girier_dufourier

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