Le geste kôngo

The gesture kôngo

From september 18 2002 to february 9 2003

African art

For the first time, 110 sculptures and statuettes of exceptional technique illustrate the theme of the incantatory gesture in the culture of the Kôngo people, one of the African ethnic groups most studied.

Musée Dapper

35bis rue Paul Valéry
75116 Paris - France

01 45 00 91 75

01 45 00 27 16

dapper@dapper.com.fr

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Hours :

From 18 september to 19 january
	from wendsday to sunday from 11 am to 7 pm
	Monday, Tuesday

Admission :

Admission fee : 5 €

Concessions : 2.5 € last wendsday of the month, Students, Under 16

Bembe (Congo), statue, wood, pigments and earthenware, h: 11 cm, Musée Dapper, Paris, inv. n° 6318 © Musée Dapper, Hughes Dubois

MORE INFORMATION :

Robert Farris Thompson, Book of art The gesture of kôngo