Known for decades in his native Romania and having produced many books, received many prizes, and exhibited in Europe and New York, Sandu Mendrea was nonetheless a victim of censorship…
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The work of Heinz Cibulka, despite its great diversity of shapes, is influenced by his artistic background: the Viennese activism of the 1960’s ti which he participated taking…
The rapid population decline in Russia was for me, in 2006 and later in 2010, the pretext for a lonely and introspective voyage across this immense Russian desert. Indeed,…
Twelve diptychs for twelve Indian chieftains who lived in the 19th century on the Alberta plains, bordering the Rocky Mountains. There are twelve successive heavens located beyond these mountains, where…
After 15 years in the little port town of Honfleur in Normandy, the Festival Chroniques Nomades is changing locations and settling in Reims. Claude Geiss, festival artistic director, admits humorously…
Every year in Mexico, millions of pilgrims travel to the Guadalupe Basilica. There on the hill of Tepeyac, the site of Aztec ruins dedicated to the goddess Tonanztin, the Virgin…
Deidi von Schaewen travels the world looking for what man builds , anything concerning architecture, thoughtful and timeless, popular or improvised. Palaces, shanties, scaffolding, temporary decorations mounted for ritual celebrations,…
Despite the Western misrepresentation of the animism of African religions, they share the belief in one God the Creator who is only accessible through the intermediaries of spiritual forces,…
Removed from their social and cultural context, the masks, statues and ritual instruments that we admire in museums are bleeding to death from a lack of understanding. They were not…
The only belongings that slaves were allowed to take with them, as they were leaving their great kingdoms of West Africa, were their gods. They smuggled them out to the…