ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND, Saturday June 25 and Sunday June 26, 2011
On June 23, 2011, the musée du quai Branly celebrates its 5th anniversary. To mark the occasion, an exceptional and festive anniversary weekend is being organized on Saturday June 25 and Sunday June 26.
The collections plateau, the temporary exhibitions MAYA, DOGON and LA FABRIQUE DES IMAGES are open to the public free of charge.
Activities are also on offer throughout the weekend, including storytelling, workshops, a jazz concert, film screenings, meetings with landscape architect Gilles Clément and
the Ivorian artist Tiken Jah Fakoly, as well as guided tours and workshops designed for visitors with disabilities, for a convivial anniversary open to all.
LAUNCHING EVENING
* Special evening around the DOGON exhibition
Friday, June 24, 7pm: Théâtre Claude Lévi-Strauss
Gaumont-Pathé archives film screening hosted by Jean-Paul Colleyn, anthropologist and filmmaker, Director of Studies at EHESS, Director of the Center for African Studies.
During the evening, in resonance with the DOGON exhibition, spectators are immersed in the heart of the mythical culture of the Dogon of Mali, following in the footsteps of Marcel Griaule and Michel Leiris’ Dakar-Djibouti mission.
A film screening of the greatest moments in the discovery of the Dogon country.
FREE ADMISSION TO EXHIBITIONS
* MAYA
From dawn to dusk
National Collections of Guatemala
21/06/2011 – 02/10/2011
Temporary exhibition – Mezzanine East
General curator: Juan-Carlos Meléndez
Scientific advisor: Richard D. Hansen
Through more than 160 exceptional pieces, most of which have never left their country of origin, the musée du quai Branly invites visitors to discover the Maya of
Guatemala, one of the three civilizations that marked the history of pre-Columbian America. With a view to safeguarding Guatemala’s
national heritage, the exhibition highlights the latest major archaeological discoveries at a number of recently studied sites – including El Mirador, which tops the list of 5 sites selected for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Painted ceramics, stelae, carved gemstones, funerary elements, architectural remains, ornaments, etc., presented in chronological order, offer a complete panorama of Guatemalan Maya culture, its development, apogee and decline.
The exhibition was produced in close collaboration with the Guatemalan Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Museo Nacional de Arqueologia y Ethnologia de Ciudad Guatemala.
* DOGON
Galerie Jardin
05/04/11 – 24/07/11
Exhibition curator: Hélène Leloup
The DOGON exhibition presents the history of Dogon art and culture, from the 10th century to the present day, through over 330 exceptional works from collections around the world, brought together for the first time in France. The art of the Dogon of Mali is one of the best-known of African cultures. In addition to the masterpieces for which Dogon art is renowned, the exhibition presents pieces for worship or even everyday use, which evoke the metaphysical and aesthetic concerns of the people who produced them. The typologies of these objects, with their virtuoso and varied techniques, have been
rarely revealed alongside the great pieces of statuary.
* LA FABRIQUE DES IMAGES
16/02/10 – 17/07/11
Mezzanine Ouest
Curator: Philippe Descola, anthropologist, Professor at the Collège de France and Director of Studies at the EHESS.
“The exhibition shows what is not immediately apparent in an image: the effects sought by those who produced it, effects that are not always deciphered by our art-western gaze” Philippe Descola.
Through 150 works, four modes of imagery are explored. Animism, naturalism, totemism and analogism are four ways of rendering present a given system of qualities attributed to objects in the world. The sequences are organized by contrasts, two by two: animism, which introduces the human
into the entire existing world, versus naturalism, where culture is the prerogative of man; totemism, which refers to the profound identities of humans and non-humans, versus analogism, which makes present the networks of correspondences between man and the universe.
RENCONTRES & DEDICACES
* Signing of the Découvertes Gallimard book “musée du quai Branly – Là où dialoguent les cultures” by its author Stéphane Martin, President of the
du quai Branly Museum Saturday June 25 at 5pm – Salon de lecture Jacques Kerchache
* Listening session : Les Esprits écoutent with Henri Lecomte Sunday June 26, 2.30pm – Salon de lecture Jacques Kerchache
*Exceptional guest Tiken Jah Fakoly Sunday June 26, 3pm (to be confirmed) – Théâtre Claude Lévi-Strauss
* Meeting with Gilles Clément, landscaper of the musée du quai Branly garden Sunday June 26, 5pm – Théâtre de verdure
TALES & WORKSHOPS
* Jardin des contes : éloge de la lenteur Saturday June 25 and Sunday June 26, 2 p.m. – Jardin (famille)
* “Tapis Tapis” workshop by Sismos Designers Saturday June 25 and Sunday June 26, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. – Jardin (famille)
* Discover the practices of Yoga, Taï-Chi, or Qi-Qong Sunday June 26, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. – Campement guinguette
GUIDED VISITS
* Tactile devices on the River Sunday June 26 from 2 to 3:30pm Plateau des collections – Accessible to the disabled
* The adventure of a tactile work: from a Dogon sculpture Saturday June 25 at 3pm – Salon de lecture Jacques Kerchache – Accessible to the visually impaired
* The adventure of a work: le mystère de la poupée Kachina Saturday June 25 at 7pm – Salon de lecture Jacques Kerchache – Accessible to the deaf and hearing impaired
* Signé Jean Nouvel Saturday June 25 at 4pm – from the garden to the Plateau des collections
CONCERTS
* Bleu indigo: Farmers by nature Saturday, June 25, 6 to 8:30 p.m. – Théâtre Claude Lévi-Strauss
* Les Siestes électroniques Sunday, June 26, 3 to 5 p.m. – Jardin de la cistude
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