Pierre Dartevelle and African Art: Memory and Continuity

Author:   Valentine Plisnier ,  Valerie Dartevelle
Publisher:   Five Continents Editions
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9788874398133


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   29 January 2020
Format:   Hardback
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'Les arts primordiaux', as the author himself defines them, have been the cornerstone and passion of his life. And everything about his daily life expresses just this: the shelves overflowing with books and catalogues on extra-European art, the statues, the masks, and the way all this material is piled up in no particular order, blocking our view in every direction and preventing us from seeing any sort of background in the rooms. There is no doubting what makes Pierre Dartevelle get up in the morning. He has devoted fifty years to getting African art's status recognised in Brussels, where in 1967 he opened a gallery in impasse Saint Jacques at the Grand Sablon, which soon achieved international renown. A lawyer by training and a great traveller by inclination, he abandoned law to give free course to his personal passion, in the footsteps of his father, Edmond Dartevelle, an explorer in his own right and scientist, whose finds in the Congo built the collection of the Musee d'Afrique centrale, in Tervuren. Viewed today by his followers and peers as an 'icon', Pierre Dartevelle has always taken an active interest in preserving the artistic and ancestral heritage of Africa. He has built or expanded some of the most important private and public collections of tribal art known to this day, such as the Musee du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac (Paris) and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. AUTHOR: Valentine Plisnier is a naturalised Frenchwoman, being Belgian by birth. She is a researcher in the history of art and an author. Together with Ralf Burmeister, Michaela Oberhofer, and Esther Tisa Francini, she was awarded the International Tribal Art Book Prize in 2016 for the catalogue of the Dada Africa exhibition. Valentine Plisnier has also organised several exhibitions: with Christophe Flubacher, at Fondation Pierre Arnaud, Lens Crans-Montana (Switzerland), Surrealisme et arts primitifs Un air de famille in 2014; then Curiosites. Le jardin secret d un collectionneur, at Musee du president Jacques Chirac (Sarran); and Arts d'Afrique. Portraits d une collection 7 objets / 7 photographes, at Galerie Bernard Dulon (Paris), in 2016. 290 colour images 2 volumes, HB, boxed

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Author:   Valentine Plisnier ,  Valerie Dartevelle
Publisher:   Five Continents Editions
Imprint:   Five Continents Editions
ISBN:  

9788874398133


ISBN 10:   8874398131
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   29 January 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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Valerie Dartevelle trained as a photographer and obtained diplomas at the Ecole superieure des arts de l'image in Brussels, 'Le 75', at the Academie de dessin et des arts decoratifs (Watermael-Boitsfort) and at the Ecole de photographie et techniques visuelles Agnes Varda (Brussels). Her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions and was awarded a prize by the Musee de la Photographie, Centre d'art contemporain de la federation Wallonie-Bruxelles, in Charleroi, as well as winning the Ilford Jury Prize and the Galerie Croiseregard prize (Vincent Verhaeren), at Boitsfort. In 1996, She created a poetic fresco, 'Pays, paysage, ecriture (dans la litterature belge)', which was the subject of a travelling exhibition visiting various libraries of the French-speaking community in Belgium. For the past twenty years she has helped her father run Galerie Dartevelle. Paris-based Valentine Plisnier is a naturalised Frenchwoman, being Belgian by birth. She is a researcher in the history of art and an author. Together with Ralf Burmeister, Michaela Oberhofer, and Esther Tisa Francini, she was awarded the International Tribal Art Book Prize in 2016 for the catalogue of the Dada Africa exhibition. Valentine Plisnier has also organised several exhibitions: with Christophe Flubacher, at Fondation Pierre Arnaud, Lens Crans-Montana (Switzerland), Surrealisme et arts primitifs Un air de famille in 2014; then Curiosites. Le jardin secret d un collectionneur, at Musee du president Jacques Chirac (Sarran); and Arts d'Afrique. Portraits d une collection 7 objets / 7 photographes, at Galerie Bernard Dulon (Paris), in 2016.

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