Exhibition: Esthétiques de l’Amour


For its new exhibition, the musée du quai Branly takes an interest in decorative arts of Far Eastern Siberia, and presents a new collection of ancient objects collected in the late 19th and early in the 20th century. All pieces presented evoke the interaction between the men’s world, the spirit’s world, and the wild nature. Visitors will have the occasion to admire protective dresses made of fish-skin, but also rituals accessories decorated with symbolical spirals or volutes, and everyday implements. This retrospective enlightens us about the life of these populations from the Amur River basin, as the Aïnous, the Nivkh, the Orotch, the Nanaï and the Hezhe (Chinese minority). They besides lived until the middle of the 20th century at the Amur River. All these populations are bind together by the practice of salmonids hunting and fishing. People can discover this event nearby the Green Hotels Paris (the Eiffel Trocadéro and the Gavarni hotel), in order to understand all the richness of these people named “barbarian with fish-skin”.

Esthétiques de l’Amour” exhibition (“Amur’s aesthetic” exhibition) from November 3rd 2015 to January 17th 2016.
Open on Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm.
Nocturnal on Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 9pm.
Full rate: €9 / Concession: €7.

affiche-exposition-esthetique-de-l-amour-quai-branly-green-hotels-paris-eiffel-trocadero-gavarni
Quai Branly Museum. Poster: Amur’s aesthetic, Far Eastern Siberia.
From November 3rd 2015 to January 17th 2016.

Musée du quai Branly
37, quai Branly
75007 Paris
France
Tel: +33 (0) 1 56 61 70 00
Access: Pont de l’Alma (RER C).

Webmaster
About me

YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE

Exhibition: Coral reefs, a challenge for Humanity
July 20, 2018
Exhibition: The little explorer’s box of delights
June 11, 2018
Exhibition: Bettina Rheims. You are finished, gentle faces
May 04, 2018
Exhibition: Ghosts and Hells
April 09, 2018
Exhibition: Paintings from afar
January 26, 2018
Exhibition: “Before Incas. Gods and Kings in Ancient Peru”
January 01, 2018
Exhibition: Rivet’s Generation
December 25, 2017
Affiche de l'exposition « Les forêts natales, arts d'Afrique équatoriale atlantique »
Exhibition: The native forests, arts of equatorial Atlantic Africa
September 25, 2017
Exhibition: “The Aztec Hotel”
September 04, 2017

Leave a comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *