Category Archives: Ethnography

Precolombian ceramics Collection, International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza

Originally posted 2020-05-05 05:41:32. The International Museum of Ceramics has a rich collection, partly on display and partly in storage, of the testimonies of numerous pre-Columbian civilizations. These are mostly ceramics, with a fairly significant presence of other materials (fabrics, metalwork, stone, wood and shell artifacts). The pieces in the…

Coexistence of Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Mozambique, Mozambique Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Originally posted 2020-04-21 07:08:08. This is an exhibition of contemporary art production focusing on traditional and modern objects to explicate the relationships of art to spirituality, as an example of lived experience of Mozambique, a country of heterogeneous culture, crystallized by holding masterpieces of oral and intangible heritage of humanity,…

Prehistory to 1714, First Part of the Permanent Exhibition, History Museum of Catalonia

Originally posted 2020-04-01 06:16:16. The permanent exhibition is a proposal to explore the history of Catalonia, ranging from prehistoric times to the present day, focusing its discourse on the knowledge and understanding of the characteristics and evolution of the societies that have occupied the territory today known. as in Catalonia,…

Alfred Weidinger: The Spirit of Africa – The African Kings, Afro Brasil Museum

Originally posted 2020-03-24 19:46:53. The exhibition “The Spirit of Africa – The African Kings”, curated by Emanoel Araújo, curator-director of the Afro Brasil Museum, the exhibition brings together 58 color and B&W photographs of the Austrian Alfred Weidinger, who portrayed contemporary kings and chiefs from different parts of the African…