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Dimitri André

A Dwarf Mask luruya, Bwa, western Burkina Faso, Dossi, composed of three sections, first oval as the base, then rectangular in the middle, then three female figures standing on the rectangular base, holding hands and looking in front of them, the whole mask is delicately carved with geometric shapes, circles and triangles, blacks, whites and reds; signs of use. Certificate of origin and provenance.

"Unlike European artists who have struggled for centuries to recreate. Nature and to present spiritual beings as humans, African artists have used abstract forms to communicate abstract ideas. Their images do not represent nature, they have rarely attempted to to so. Instead, they make the most abstract invisible and ineffable of supernatural beings visible through the use of abstract shapes and images”
Source: Land of the Flying Masks, Art and Culture in Burkina Faso, Christopher D. Roy, Thomas G.B. Wheelock, p.411.

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Mask - Wood - Bwa - Burkina Faso 