16 Paris PARIS 2018 Parcours des Mondes Paris, 11 to 16 September


Pacours des Mondes in Paris, which has been going for 17 years, is one of the largest annual gatherings of tribal, Asian,


Oceania, African, the


Americas, and Islamic World art. In 2018, 64 local and international galleries are coming together in the city in September to showcase a wide range of artefacts in the galleries in the Saint-Germain-des-Près neighbourhood, 6th arrondissement. Tis year about half the exhibitors are from outside France, which underlines that


the week has become an


important event in the international calendar. To explore the origins and fascination of tribal art, Espace Tribal, 22 rue Visconti, has organised an exhibition that looks back at the famous 1930 Exposition d’art Africain et d’art Oceanien that took place at the Galerie du théâtre Pigalle. Tere is also a lecture series that explores the context, background and history of this now legendary show and its influence on other exhibitions of the period. A bilingual (French/Eng) catalogue accompanies this exhibition, published by Editions HR/Somogy.


Crowned Buddha, Ayutthaya kingdom, Tailand, 17th century, copper alloy with traces of lacquer and gilding, height 114. 3 cm © Galerie Christophe Hioco


French exhibitors at the fair include


Galerie Indian Heritage who will be showing a selection of Himalayan masks along with a group of photographic prints by Sylvia Bataille that were taken with a pin-hole camera. Galerie Kevorkian are at two venues this year and are showing works from the Danube to the Indus River, a highlight is a French collection of archaeological objects that includes Luristan bronzes. Mingei Japanese Arts’


exhibition


Snake exploring a skull by Izumi Sukeyuki (1838-1920), circa 1900-1910, Meiji period, okimono, carved from one piece of wood, silver, 10 x 10 x 10 cm, Mingei Japanese Arts © Tadayuki Minamoto


explores the supernatural, yurei (ghosts),


dokuro creatures), (supernatural and bakemono (shape-


shifting monsters that appear often in Japanese folklore). Other Parisian galleries that specialise in Asian art are also part of Parcours, including Galerie Christophe Hioco, Renaud Montméat Art d’Asie and Alexis Renard Indian and Islamic Art and Pascassio Manfredi who is showing Indonesian and Philippine art. Te UK galleries that specialises in Asian art are Jonathan Hope, tribal and rare textiles, Kapil Jariwala Gallery, Indian Art, Max Rutherston, Japanese Art, and Runjeet Singh, Asian art and antique arms and armour. Tribal and Asian galleries from the US include Joe Loux, from San Francisco, showing Oceanic and Southeast Asian art and jewellery, Farrow Fine Art Gallery specialising in Oceanic, Philippine


art, and


Indonesian and Bruce Frank


Primitive Art who deals in Oceanic and Indonesian art. And from Italy Dalton Somaré are offering a selection of Indian, Himalayan and African art.


Netsuke by Sanko, circa 1790, ivory, height 6.3 cm © Max Rutherston Ltd


ASIAN ART SEPTEMBER 2018


• In galleries throughout Saint-Germain-des-Près, Paris. For more information on the programme, visit parcoursdesmondes.com


Padmapani, central Java, Indonesia, 9th/10th century, andsite 130 x 50 x 23 cm Alexis Renard © François Mallet


Trone by Kohei Nawa at the Pyramid, Louvre Museum Round-Up


Processional mask, Uttarakhand, India, circa 1700, wood, pigments, height 112cm, Indian Heritage © Frédéric Rond


Tengpai wicker shield, rattan, gouache, wood, China, beginning of 19th century, Qing dynasty, height 76.5 cm © Runjeet Singh


In September, the various institutions involved in Asian and Islamic World art are just getting back into the autumn schedule, with many exhibitions not starting until October. Tis year is especially important as Japan marks the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration, the name given to the events of 1868, which saw the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate (or bakufu) and the creation of a new government with a central focus on imperial rule under the Emperor Meiji. It also marks the 160th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Japan. To celebrate these events, Japonismes 2018 has been created with many Japanese events being organised throughout France. In Paris, Musée Guimet have organised an exhibition to commemorate this event, Meiji: Splendours of Imperial Japan, from 16 October to 14 January. Musée Cernuschi have also created a Japanese exhibition, Treasures of Kyoto, Tree Centuries of Rimpa, from 26 October to 27 January 2019.


VIETNAM NEW


ACQUISITIONS Musée Cernuschi, Paris, to 4 November


Te museum is showing a set of 13 works from the fine art schools of Cochinchina (the French colony that had its capital as Saigon), dating from 1930s-40s, donated by Marcel Schneyder, son of Térèse and Rene Schneyder, senior official in Indochina from 1924 to


1951. From 1935 to 1945, René Schneyder was the chief administrator of the province of Bac Lieu, director of the offices of the government of Cochinchina, and chief administrator of the province of Gia Dinh. Until now, the creations of the schools of applied arts of Cochin China have not been represented in the collections of the museum. Other gifts of Vietnamese art include a painting by Mai Tu from the 1960s-70s, and four Vietnamese ceramics.


KOHEI NAWA THRONE


Louvre, Paris, to 13 January 2019


As part of the Japonismes 2018: Souls in harmony cultural season, the installation Trone is on show under the Pyramid of the Musée du Louvre. Tis monumental work by Japanese artist Kohei Nawa is entirely covered with gold leaf, and blends Japanese cultural tradition with cutting-edge technology. Nawa drew his inspiration from the shapes and origins of floats used in Eastern religious festivals. He made the work using a combination of the latest 3D modelling systems and the gold leaf gilding technique, echoing ancient Egypt and the collections of the Musée du Louvre. With this work, Nawa predicts that rapid advances in computer science and artificial intelligence could, in the long term, replace power and authority as the principal instruments of political and economic influence.


WORLD VIEW


OF ASIA Musée Guimet, Paris, to 10 September


Tis exhibition offers another history of the world, illustrated by famous and unknown


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