The two volumes dedicated to Pierre Dartevelle and his collection tell a story and create a context, as well as describe relations between men and their bonds with objects. \u201cLes arts primordiaux,\u201d as the author himself defines them, have been the cornerstone and passion of his life. And everything about his daily life expresses just this: the bookshelves overflowing with books and catalogues on extra-European art, the statues, the masks, and the way all this material is piled up in no particular order, blocking our view in every direction and preventing us from seeing any sort of background in the rooms. There is no doubting what makes Pierre Dartevelle get up in the morning.<\/p>\n
He has devoted fifty years to getting African art\u2019s status recognized in Brussels, where in 1967 he opened a gallery in impasse Saint Jacques at the Grand Sablon, which soon achieved international renown. A lawyer by training and a great traveller by inclination, he abandoned law to give free course to his personal passion, in the footsteps of his father, Edmond Dartevelle, an explorer in his own right and scientist, whose finds in the Congo built the collection of the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Afrique centrale, in Tervuren. Viewed today by his followers and peers as an \u201cicon,\u201d Pierre Dartevelle has always taken an active interest in preserving the artistic and ancestral heritage of Africa. He has built or expanded some of the most important private and public collections of tribal art known to this day, such as the Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly \u2013 \u00a0Jacques Chirac (Paris) and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.<\/p>\n
Val\u00e9rie Dartevelle, Pierre\u2019s daughter, has played a key part in this publication, as, besides being the custodian of the collection and of its history, she is also present in the book through her distinctive eye as a portrait photographer with a passion for Surrealism. This visual stance is reflected in the narrative structure of the publishing project, which is not coincidentally built around a series of interviews giving privileged access to one of the most famous collections of tribal art in the world, as well as previously unpublished documents.<\/p>\n
Specialists and lovers of tribal art will find in the first volume, dedicated to the figure of Pierre Dartevelle, and in the second, on the illustrious collection, a wealth of pictures and accounts that are sure to satisfy their curiosity, arouse fresh interest, and answer many of their queries.<\/p>\n
Valentine Plisnier\u00a0<\/strong>lives and works in Paris and is a naturalized Frenchwoman, being Belgian by birth. She is a researcher in the history of art and author. Her books include: Le Primitivisme dans la photographie. L\u2019impact des arts extra-europ\u00e9ens sur la modernit\u00e9 photographique de 1918 \u00e0 nos jours \/ Primitivism and Photography: Non-Western Art and Modern Photography: from 1918 to the Present<\/em>, 2012; with Michel Boulanger, Art lega. Grandeur et humilit\u00e9<\/em>, with a preface by Pierre Dartevelle, 2016; with Patrick Caput, Arts d\u2019Afrique. Portraits d\u2019une collection \/ African Art. Portraits of a Collection<\/em>, 2016. Together with Ralf Burmeister, Michaela Oberhofer, and Esther Tisa Francini, she was awarded the International Tribal Art Book Prize in 2016 for the catalogue of the Dada Africa<\/em>exhibition. Valentine Plisnier has also organized several exhibitions: with Christophe Flubacher, at Fondation Pierre Arnaud, Lens \u2013 Crans-Montana (Switzerland), Surr\u00e9alisme et arts primitifs \u2013 Un air de famille<\/em>in 2014; then Curiosit\u00e9s. Le jardin secret d\u2019un collectionneur<\/em>, at Mus\u00e9e du pr\u00e9sident Jacques Chirac (Sarran); and Arts d\u2019Afrique. Portraits d\u2019une collection \u2013 7 objets \/ 7 photographes<\/em>, at Galerie Bernard Dulon (Paris), in 2016.<\/p>\n Val\u00e9rie Dartevelle\u00a0<\/strong>trained as a photographer and obtained diplomas at the \u00c9cole sup\u00e9rieure des arts de l\u2019image in Brussels, \u201cLe 75,\u201d at the Acad\u00e9mie de dessin et des arts d\u00e9coratifs (Watermael-Boitsfort) and at the \u00c9cole de photographie et techniques visuelles Agn\u00e8s Varda (Brussels). Her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions and was awarded a prize by the Mus\u00e9e de la Photographie, Centre d\u2019art contemporain de la f\u00e9d\u00e9ration Wallonie-Bruxelles, in Charleroi, as well as winning the Ilford Jury Prize and the Galerie Croiseregard prize (Vincent Verhaeren), at Boitsfort. In addition, her photo features have been published by numerous newspapers and magazines. In 1996, Val\u00e9rie Dartevelle created a poetic fresco, Pays, paysage, \u00e9criture (dans la litt\u00e9rature belge)<\/em>, which was the subject of a travelling exhibition that visited various libraries of the French-speaking community in Belgium. For the past twenty years she has helped her father run Galerie Dartevelle.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The two volumes dedicated to Pierre Dartevelle and his collection tell a story and create a context, as well as describe relations between men and their bonds with objects. \u201cLes arts primordiaux,\u201d as the author himself defines them, have been the cornerstone and passion of his life. And everything about his daily life expresses just…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25061,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[50],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20821","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-african-art","7":"disponibilita-si","8":"description-off","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/20821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=20821"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=20821"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=20821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}