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Roger Boulay, the tribulations of a Kanak art madman

2020-11-16T22:54:58.720Z


From Noumea to Toulouse, via Rouen, Avignon and Cologne, this museologist has spent his life making an inventory of ancient New Caledonian objects scattered around the world. To date, 20,000 are documented. Focus on an extraordinary journey.


It is the adventure of a lifetime - and even more of a civilization - that Roger Boulay crystallizes in a book that has just been released *.

This museologist with round glasses and a mischievous smile (we owe him, in recent years, original exhibitions on the image of the cannibal and the vahine, on the figure of the explorer or on the character of Tarzan) presents a selection of his watercolors which will soon be available at the Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris.

Combined with dimensions and other formal details, they represent fascinating objects captured from several angles.

Here are hieratic statuettes and statues, large grimacing masks - figures with hooked noses, pigeon feathers and real hair -, shell coins, appliques, door frames, ridge arrows and other elements of decor of boxes.

And more monstrance axes, stone sling balls, engraved bamboo stems or ingenious spear thrusters ...

The discovery of each of these leaves

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Source: lefigaro

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