Guardian of mbulu relics.
Ethnicity: Kota.
Country: Gabon
Among the Bakota, guardian figures guard the relics of relevant ancestors. It is not about simple steles that remember their memory, the descendants have the obligation to "keep them alive" through offerings to ensure the happiness and well-being of the family lineage. They intervene in the life of the group in ceremonies in which the initiates dance with them in their arms, procuring fertility, good hunting, luck in business...even intervening in personal disputes.
It was these sculptures that reduced the human figure to the essentials, a source of inspiration for the arts. Very schematic and with a tendency towards abstraction, they greatly influenced the rupture of the classical canon carried out by the avant-garde.
Juan Gris, fascinated by the use of three dimensions on a plane, made a copy of a Kota guardian by cutting it out of cardboard, now disappeared, to later write: "How can we not admit an art that proceeding in this way manages to individualize what is general and each time in a different way? It is the opposite of Greek art...". 44x25cm
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