Paris, 2 August 2012
From 11 September to 20 October, the Galerie Meyer Oceanic Art in Paris will exhibit “Walkabout: the early art of the Australian Aborigines”.
This exhibition will feature a selection of two hundred pieces from three private European collections of fine Aboriginal Art as well as archaic Eskimo Art. The opening will take place during the opening of Parcours des Mondes, the world’s leading international Tribal Art fair which will take place during the second week of September in Paris.
Early Aboriginal works which may take the form of tools, weapons, bark paintings, rock art and sand drawings, typically made from wood, stone, shell, animal and plant material, are often classified as minimalist in terms of their simplicity of shape and decoration. Due to the nomadic nature of the Aborigines’ lifestyle, these tribes typically condense or reduce their artwork to the necessity of its function. As stated in the press release: “Aboriginal Art is an art of Design – it is an art of perfection. For those who can see beyond the apparent simplicity, there is remarkable beauty to be found not only in the pure form but in the treatment of surfaces and in the refined and elaborate incised and painted decoration”.