Men Collaborative – Ngura Tjungunu, Spinifex Art Project, 290 x 200 cm © Private Collection with the courtesy of the Spinifex Art Project
The exhibition “VOIR L’INVISIBLE, un voyage au coeur des cultures traditionnelles d’Australie” (SEEING THE INVISIBLE, a journey to the heart of Australia’s traditional cultures) is an invitation to discover the tangible and intangible richness of Australia’s Indigenous cultures, through the testimonies of artists, men and women who fight every day to preserve their identity and defend their rights.
The museum of Angoulême wishes to highlight the key and important place of this Australian movement in the history of art, by developing a fruitful dialogue between the works of Aboriginal artists from the vast regions of Australia and the museum’s collections, from antiquity to 20th-century Western paintings.
In the museum, you can cross the whole of Australia from north to south, and immerse yourself in the age-old cultures still alive in the communities of the Torres Strait (Queensland), the Tiwi Islands, and the Yolngus and Kunibídji peoples of Arnhem Land. Then contemplate the works of the central desert with the Pintupi, Pitjantjatjara, Anmatyerre, Yuparitja, Martu and Walpiri peoples. All the way south to the Coorong communities of South Australia.
The exhibition is organised in partnership with the Muséum du Havre, the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac and Bertrand Estrangin, a Franco-Belgian specialist in Aboriginal art, drawing on his own collection and works from his Aboriginal Signature Estrangin gallery in Brussels.
SOURCE: Museum of Angoulême.