domingo, 6 de janeiro de 2013

Vida, Morte e Transformações na América


Brooklyn Museum
New York
Abre 18 de Janeiro de 2013



Thunderbird Transformation Mask, 19th century. Kwakwaka'wakw artist. Alert Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Cedar, pigment, leather, nails, metal plate, open: 121.9 x 180.3 x 38.1 cm, closed: 52.1 x 43.2 x 74.9 cm. Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1908, Museum Collection Fund, 08.291.8902.


Morte, Vida e Transformação nas Américas apresenta 122 obras da coleção permanente das Artes das Américas que exemplificam o conceito de transformação como parte das crenças religiosas e práticas sociais dos povos indígenas da região.



Bird on Its Back Surmounted by Three Seated Figures, 1860-80. Haida artist. United States or Canada. Argillite, 25.4 x 39.4 x 9.5 cm. Brooklyn Museum, By exchange, 72.5.1.


Life, Death and Transformation in the Americas presents 122 masterpieces from the Arts of the Americas permanent collection that exemplify the concept of transformation as part of the religious beliefs and social practices of the region's indigenous peoples.





Ladle with Skull, 19th century. Heiltsuk artist. Wáglísla, British Columbia, Canada. Cedar wood, bear fur, cord, pigment, 73.7 x 22.2 x 23.6 cm. Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1905, Museum Collection Fund, 05.588.7297a–b.



Temas da vida, a morte, fertilidade, regeneração e transformação espiritual são explorados através de obras  históricas da arte pré-Colombiana, incluindo 21 objetos não estiveram à vista do público por décadas ou nunca foram exibidos. Esta instalação de longo prazo, que será aberta em 18 de janeiro, ficará exposta nas galerias do Museu recentemente reabertas no quinto andar ao lado das Identidades Americanas.



Kneeling Figure Effigy Pipe, 1400-1500. Tennessee or Georgia, United States. Stone, pigment, 12.2 x 17 x 8.6 cm. Brooklyn Museum, Frank Sherman Benson Fund and the Henry L. Batterman Fund, 37.2802PA.

Themes of life, death, fertility, regeneration, and spiritual transformation are explored through pre-Columbian and historical artworks including 21 objects not been on public view for decades or have never been exhibited. This long-term installation, which will open on January 18, will be on display in the Museum's recently re-opened galleries on the fifth floor adjacent to American Identities.



Anahoho Kachina, late 19th century. Zuni artist. Zuni, New Mexico, United States. Wood, pigment, feathers, cotton fabric, 37.5 x 17.1 x 20.3 cm. Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1903, Museum Collection Fund, 03.325.4658.

Os destaques incluem a Figura Huastec da Vida e Morte , uma estátua de pedra esculpida que justapõe imagens da vida e da morte e é uma das melhores de seu gênero, a  Máscara de Transformação Kwakwaka'wakw Thunderbird , uma máscara de madeira esculpida na forma de um ser ancestral que se abre para revelar um segundo rosto humano, e uma casa Heiltsuk de dois metros de altura, esculpida no século 19 mensagens feita para suportar as enormes vigas de uma grande casa de prancha da Costa Noroeste.


Plaque with Crocodile Deity, circa 700-900. Sitio Conte, Coclé Province, Panama. Gold, 22.9 x 21.6 cm. Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1931, Museum Collection Fund, 33.448.12.

Highlights include the Huastec Life-Death Figure, a carved stone statue that juxtaposes images of life and death and is one of the finest of its kind; the Kwakwaka'wakw Thunderbird Transformation Mask, a carved wood mask in the form of an ancestral being that opens to reveal a second, human face; and two eight-foot-tall, carved 19-century Heiltsuk house posts made to support the huge beams of a great Northwest Coast plank house.


Fox Runner Effigy Vessel, circa 400-700. Moche artist. North Coast, Peru. Ceramic, pigment, 27.3 x 14.6 x 22.5cm. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Eugene Schaefer, 36.332.

Outros objetos de destaque incluem exemplos da extensa coleção Hopi e Zunia da coleção de kachinas; máscaras de todo o continente americano; esculturas Astecas e Maias, ornamentos de ouro pré-Colombianas, e antigos tecidos andinos, incluindo texteis Paracas de dois mil anos de idade, a mais famosa peça da coleção Museu Andino, que ilustra a forma como as culturas primitivas da Costa do Sul do Peru, imaginavam a sua relação com a natureza e o reino sobrenatural.



Standing Figurines, 1000-1100. Possibly Mimbres artist. Sanders, Arizona, United States. Stone, pigment, height of each 7.6-12.1 cm. Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1903, Museum Collection Fund, 03.325.4527-.4534.

Other featured objects include examples from the extensive Hopi and Zuni kachina collection; masks from all over the Americas; Aztec and Maya sculptures; pre-Columbian gold ornaments; and ancient Andean textiles including the two-thousand-year-old Paracas Textile, the most famous piece in the Museum's Andean collection, which illustrates the way in which early cultures of Peru's South Coast envisioned their relationship with nature and the supernatural realm.



House Post, from a Set of Four, 19th century. Heiltsuk artist. Wáglísla, British Columbia, Canada. Cedar wood, 248.9 x 89.5 x 44.5cm. Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1911, Museum Collection Fund, 11.700.1.

Entre os objetos raramente expostos ao público está uma máscara de corpo inteiro feita de casca de pano pelos Pami'wa da Colômbia e do Brasil, uma máscara Paracas pintada feita de tecido que foi provavelmente associada a uma múmia, uma Máscara da  costa noroeste Kwakwaka'wakw de um homem selvagem  por John Livingston, uma efígie Maya na forma de um corcunda vestindo uma pele de onça pintada e uma grande jarra  Paracas elaboradamente pintada;



Life Death Figure, 900-1250. Huastec artist. Possibly found at the site of Chilitujú near San Vicente Tancuayalab, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Sandstone, traces of pigment. 158.4 x 66 x 29.2 cm. Brooklyn Museum, Frank Sherman Benson Fund and the Henry L. Batterman Fund, 37.2897PA.

Among the objects that have rarely been on public view are a full-body bark-cloth mask made by the Pami'wa of Colombia and Brazil; a Paracas painted textile mask that was most likely associated with a mummy bundle; a Northwest Coast Kwakwaka'wakw Wild Man Mask by John Livingston; a Maya effigy vessel in the form of a hunchback wearing a jaguar skin; a large, elaborately-painted Paracas jar;



Oötsawihazru, 1960-70,Henry Shelton (Hopi, born 1929) Oraibi, Third Mesa, Arizona, Unites States. Cottonwood root, acrylic pihment, hide, feathers, fur, yarn, silver, 53.3 x 20.3 x 16.5 cm. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Edith and Hershel Samuels, 2010.6.7.

Uma figura guerreira Maya  com cocar removível, duas kachinas contemporâneas feitas pelo escultor Hopi Henry Shelton; Anasazi ; estatuetas de argila, Valdivia dos tipos mais antigos encontrados na América do Norte e do Sul, fragmentos têxteis Paracas da América do Sul; um pingente gafanhoto de água-marinha do México; apitos em forma de aves em cerâmica da Costa Rica e do Panamá; Moche estribo-bico embarcações provenientes do Peru, e um grande, cesta Apache tecido com figuras de espírito.


Tripod Bowl with Skull, 1000-1500. Mixteca-Puebla artist. Veracruz, Mexico. Ceramic, pigments, 15.1 x 26.7 x 26.7 cm. Brooklyn Museum, Carl H. de Silver Fund, 64.51.1.

a Maya warrior figure with removable headdress; two contemporary kachinas by the Hopi carver Henry Shelton; Anasazi and Valdivia clay figurines, the oldest types found in North and South America; Paracas textile fragments from South America; an aquamarine grasshopper pendant from Mexico; ceramic bird whistles from Costa Rica and Panama; Moche stirrup-spout vessels from Peru; and a large, woven Apache basket with spirit figures.


Effigy Vessel in the Form of a Jaguar Impersonator, 400-500. Maya artist. Mexico or Peten, Guatemala. Ceramic, pigment, 17.8 x 10.8 x 7.6 cm. Brooklyn Museum, Gift in memory of Frederic Zeller, 2009.2.11.




Mirror Handle, circa 850-1470. Chimú artist. North Coast, Peru. Wood, gold, turquoise, red pigment, 29.5 x 14.1 cm. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.224.4.

Morte, Vida e Transformação nas Américas é organizada por Nancy Rosoff, curadora da Andrew W. Mellon , Artes das Américas, Museu do Brooklyn, e Susan Kennedy Zeller, curadora associada, Native American Art, Museu do Brooklyn.


Mantle, known as the Paracas Textile, 100-300. Nasca artist. Peru. Cotton, camelid fiber, 62.2 x 148 cm. Brooklyn Museum, John Thomas Underwood Memorial Fund, 38.121.

Life, Death and Transformation in the Americas is organized by Nancy Rosoff, Andrew W. Mellon Curator, Arts of the Americas, Brooklyn Museum; and Susan Kennedy Zeller, Associate Curator, Native American Art, Brooklyn Museum.

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