TIME DREAM You again until Sunday to visit the Museum of Allauch a beautiful and interesting exhibition of Australian aboriginal painting
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Grand Aborigine Dream" presents fifty works from public and private collections in France. They allow visitors to discover this very special art based on the dream that is at the heart of spirituality of these people. The geometric motifs evoke the ancestral territory and myths that recount the life and travels of the Great Ancestors taking place in a space-time linking past, present and future in parallel with the profane time.
The Aboriginal painting began as a collective art, even if the dream "belonged" to a particular person. It was ephemeral, it did not exist for itself but accompanied a ceremony and was not meant to exist once the ritual is complete. Over the years has developed an individualism, the artist now boasts his own style and works are made in order to continue. Originally performed by using colored sand on the floor, the painting is done since the 1970s in acrylic and canvas. At that time also began the interests of artists and scholars for the works of the original inhabitants and now the tables can grow large sums at auctions.
Nangala Debra McDonald, "Goanna Dreaming"
Since the day of the woman (!) Approaching, it is perhaps interesting to note that these paintings were up at early 1990s performed exclusively by men. In 1994 a project was launched encouraging women to turn the brush. Many of those who have put so painting in turn were already close to this art, they were sisters, daughters or wives of painters known and had witnessed for years in their work. Yet we know that women have always had their own spiritual field with their locations, their ceremonies and symbols, is largely ignored by anthropologists - mostly men ...
where Museum Allauch, Place Pierre Bellot, 13 when : Tuesday to Sunday from 9am to 12pm and from 14h to 18h Guided tours on Saturdays and Sundays at 15h Exhibition "The Aboriginal dream" until March 6!
