Exhibition: Feathers – visions of pre-Columbian America


Until 29th January 2017, the musée du quai Branly organizes an exhibition devoted to the symbolism of feathers in the pre-Columbian America. This retrospective invites you on a historic journey about the art of Aztec feather workers, used by religious people for the benefit of the new religion, and so to produce hybrid works which still remain today symbols of the New Spain. The feather works brought back from Mexico have been the most valued pieces of work in Europe. The first part of the event is dedicated to the pre-Columbian feather works and exposes for the very first time six paints of preserved feather in France. A second part lingers on fabrication technics, but also on the Andean Baroque art where Christian iconography is blended with ancestral symbols such as feathers. Finally, the exhibition closes on pieces of contemporary art, with works of the feather worker Nelly Saunier. It can be visited not far from the Green Hotels Paris, the Eiffel Trocadéro and the Gavarni.

Exhibition “Feathers: visions of pre-Colombian America”, from November 22th 2016 to January 29th 2017.
Open on Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday from 11a.m. to 7p.m., and from Thursday to Saturday from 11a.m. to 9p.m.
Closed on Monday.
Full rate: €10 / Concession: €7.

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Mass of Saint-Grégoire, feather mosaic of wood, Mexico, 1539.
© RMN – Grand Palais – Benoit Touchard
© Musée des Jacobins – Auch – Pierre de Gand (sous la direction de)

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

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