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Masks at Quai Branly, Paris

The mask hides as much as it reveals, “denies as much as it affirms”, as Claude Lévi-Strauss asserted. Very often the holder of a secret, the mask conceals that which only the initiated should know.
The mask’s power also lies in its capacity to incarnate spirits, a link between man and his ancestors, between the visible and the invisible world.  It is inseparable from a mythical context which structures the mode of existence and thought of the majority of traditional societies.
Central to the life of a group or a community, the mask, an indispensable intercessor, is always active.
For a concise description of the masks in this series follow this link
 

náhodný výběr modelů

Homer at The British Museum, London

Pan at The Palace of Versailles, France

Cosimo I de' Medici at The Louvre, Paris

Iiosif Olariu in Caransebes, Romania

Liar Liar at Tate Britain, London

Francois Grimaldi in Monaco