Barcelo and Barbier-Mueller Museum: A Dialogue on Scarifications

2023-12-10 12:25:51

Published on December 10, 2023 at 1:25 p.m. / Modified on December 10, 2023 at 1:26 p.m.

Scarifications. It is around this biting theme, which gives its title to the exhibition, that the Catalan artist Miquel Barcelo and the rich collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum lead an incisive dialogue. Until next April, in the windows of the Geneva private museum, works by the painter, sculptor and ceramist rub shoulders with masks, containers, statuettes, ornaments mostly from Africa, but also from Oceania or from North America. However, comparing the works of Miquel Barceló to the so-called “primary” arts is both obvious and paradoxical.

In the cave

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