Contemporary creations?
Yes.
Abstract art?
No.
The some 200 canvases that the Musée du quai Branly has been presenting in Paris since Tuesday are forms of plans, symbolic expressions of the desert regions of central and western Australia.
These often large-format paintings, complete with ceramics, basketry and wood carvings, also turn out to be the plastic translations of an immense and very ancient epic that was once transmitted mainly through oral tales or song.
Multiple curators for this event, as colorful as it is enlightening, produced by the National Museum of Australia: in fact, they are all the members of the cooperatives of the many communities concerned (martu, ngaanyatjarra, apy, etc.).
On Tuesday, their delegations sang from the museum garden to its picture rails.
Hats, scarves and thick coats reminded us that the group came from a much warmer climate than ours.
These men and women, the elders that they are, raised their voice because on the spot their word is...
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