ARTE POPOLARE DELL’AFRICA CENTRO-ORIENTALE, Figura maschile, Fine XX-inizio XXI secolo vasi It carefully and meticulously depicts

It carefully and meticulously depicts over fifty villages along the route between Kyoto and Yedo (Edo)

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printed in a total of 250 copies by imprimerie Darantiere in Dijon

Milan 1999-2000

ARTE POPOLARE DELL’AFRICA CENTRO-ORIENTALE, Figura maschile, Fine XX-inizio XXI secolo vasi It carefully and meticulously depictsStatue in mahogany carved and pigmented, from Uganda. The style is inspired by the traditions of the Congolese basin, particularly from the tribes of Songye and Luba. The geometric and chromatic decorations on the face refer to a symbolic language related to protection and belonging; they are signs that do not have a unique and codified meaning: they were fluid codes, readable only by the initiated, and varied from clan to clan. The circle, for