Research Catalog

Title

Congo as fiction : art worlds between past and present / edited by Nanina Guyer and Michaela Oberhofer.

Publication

• Zürich : Museum Rietberg : Scheidegger & Spiess, [2020]
• ©2020
• Thuringia, Germany : DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg GmbH

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Guyer, Nanina
• Oberhofer, Michaela
• Museum Rietberg, host institution.

Description

328 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, map, portraits; 29 cm

Summary

For the first time, this exhibition presents objects and photographs that the German art anthropologist Hans Himmelheber collected during his field trip to the Congo in 1938-39: coloured masks, imposing figures, and richly decorated everyday objects. These are contrasted with contemporary positions by renowned Congolese artists. Exhibition: Museum Rietberg, Zürich, Switzerland (22.11.2019 - 15.03.2020).

Subject

• Himmelheber, Hans, 1908-2003 > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Himmelheber, Hans, 1908-2003
• Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic) > Exhibitions
• Art > Private collections
• Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic)

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-327).

Exhibitions (note)

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Congo as fiction - art worlds between past and present' at the Museum Rietberg Zürich from November 22, 2019 to March 15 2020.

Contents

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fictions and art worlds of the Congo between past and present / Michaela Oberhofer / Nanina Guyer -- Exploring, photographing, and acquiring art -- Between researching and collecting: Hans Himmelheber in the Congo, 1938/1939 / Michaela Oberhofer -- Factual Moments, visual factions: Notes on the creation of Hans Himmelheber's Congo photographs / Nanina Guyer -- Transporting the powerful: Tipoye through time -- Art at the service of the colonizer: The pende chair of a chef médaillé -- Man and machine, automobile and art -- The female chief, art, and photography -- From power figure to museum piece: The turbulent history of "Mitembe's Yankima" -- Evolve: Memories of an évolué / Michèle Magema -- Blackout poetry, idea's genealogy / David Shongo -- Design and elegance -- Perpetuating a myth: Images from the Kuba Kingdom and Western fantasies (1920s to 1950s) / Christraud M. Geary -- Strategic spectacle: The royal masks of the Kuba -- Old and new kings: Portrait of Mbopey Mabiintsh ma-Kyeen and Pathy Tshindele's It's my kings -- Creativity and innovation in Kuba textiles -- Kuba design: Transforming the world in line with aesthetic principles -- Sapeurs then and now in photography / Yves Sambu / Hans Himmelheber / Nanina Guyer -- Mvuatu-Mboka Na Biso - et la Suisse. The Congolese diaspora on fashion and identity in Switzerland / Fiona Boba / Laura Falletta -- Power and politics -- Hans Himmelheber in Luluwaland, March 24-May 22, 1939 / Constantine Petridis -- Between inside and outside: A female power object by the Congolese central pende / Michaela Oberhofer / David Mannes / Jens Stenger -- Art as expression of resistance: Pende power figures and pendants -- Feared masks, cubistic icons: Kifwebe from the Songye region -- (Im)Balance of powers: Mangaaka figures then and now -- The Lord is dead, long life to the Lord / Sinzo Aanza -- Visible and invisible worlds: Songye power figures -- Kasala: The slaughter-house of dreams or the first human, Bende's error / Sammy Baloji / Fiston Mwanza Mujila -- Performance and Initiation -- Photo essay: The role of masks in the Easten Pende Mukanda / Z.S. Strother / Nzomba Dugo Kakema -- Pende initiation masks: Art that makes men out of boys -- Light and dark sides: The Pende mask Mbangu in contemporary art -- A snapshot of artistic practices around 1938: The Yaka's Mukanda masks -- Beauty and the beast: Chokwe masks -- "Many artists make an acerb critique of what they perceive as the uninterrupted colonization of their country by capitalist and geopolitical interests." / Sandrine Colard / Nanina Guyer -- Authors and artists -- Bibliography -- Lenders to the exhibition/Photo credits/Imprint.

Call Number

Sc F 21-14

ISBN

• 9783858818355
• 3858818356

OCLC

1121195767

Title

Congo as fiction : art worlds between past and present / edited by Nanina Guyer and Michaela Oberhofer.

Publisher

Zürich : Museum Rietberg : Scheidegger & Spiess, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Manufacturer

Thuringia, Germany : DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg GmbH

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-327).

Exhibitions

Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Congo as fiction - art worlds between past and present' at the Museum Rietberg Zürich from November 22, 2019 to March 15 2020.

Added Author

Guyer, Nanina, editor, curator.

Oberhofer, Michaela, editor, curator.

Museum Rietberg, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc F 21-14