Photographs from De long en large Ladakh by Jean Mansion - Édition Findakly. Copyright Lise Mansion
The sixth SEECHAC conferenceKucha and Beyond: Divine and Human Landscapes from Central Asia to the Himalayas
will be held from November 2 to 4, 2021 in
Bibliotheca Albertina,
Vortragssaal,
Beethovenstraße 6
04107 Leipzig
AN INFINITE WORLD: SHAMAN ARTISTS, The Fernet-Branca foundation in Saint Louis organizes an exhibition of paintings inspired by shamanism around Pierre Zinck's Himalayan art collection.
A conference was organized for this occasion, in which we participated.
UNKNOWN ASPECTS OF ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEELIf the traveler and explorer is well known, other aspects of her life are much less known.
In the course of lectures we will address two of them.
Wednesday, September 22 at 4pm:
She was a singer and wrote a book The Great Art about the life of a singer, the first part of which is obviously her experience.
She also wrote the libretto for an opera Lidia that her lover at the time Jean Hautstont set to music and that she sang. Samuel Thévoz , Doctor of Letters from the University of Lausanne, associate researcher at the University Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris 3 / UMR 7172 THALIM, who participated in the edition of Grand Art will comment on her career.
Frédérique Varda and Jean Goyetche recorded an excerpt from Lidia, which has never been edited.
This excerpt will be screened in the presence of the two singers who will comment on it.
Jeanne Mascolo de Filippis who wrote a book Alexandra David-Néel - 100 years of adventure and made a film about her will participate in this conference.
Thursday, September 23 at 4pm:
Feminist, anarchist and freemason Alexandra David Néel has been deeply involved in various struggles.
Christine Roux, Doctor of Letters, will talk about her involvement in Freemasonry.
Nicolas Eprendre will discuss her relationship with Elysée Reclus and anarchy.
Jeanne Mascolo de Filippis will talk about her feminist struggle.
Master Emmanuel Pierrat, who is familiar with Freemasonry in India, will discuss this aspect. The Maharaja of Sikkim, a great friend of Alexandra David-Néel, belonged to a lodge in Calcutta.
These two conferences will be held at :
Centre Tchèque
18, rue Bonaparte.
Access will be primarily reserved for members of the association and the sanitary rules imposed according to the context will be respected.
ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEELContinuing our cycle
Make way for the young!
We leave our picture rails at the disposal of
Nicolas Agnez-Samson
Agnez Art Gallery - Galerie Nomade
www.agnez-artgallery.com
to present comic books dedicated to Alexandra David-Néel from 9 to 25 September.
He will be exhibiting unique Premium prints and watercolours in the presence of artist Fred Campoy (Scriptwriter and Draughtsman). Mathieu Blanchot (Draughtsman and Colourist) will unfortunately not be able to be with us.
Opening on Thursday 9 September at 6 pm.
This exhibition is made in collaboration with the gallery-library Traits d'esprits 35, rue Bonaparte.
Two conferences on Alexandra David-Néel are organised at the Centre Tchèque - 18 rue Bonaparte at 4pm on 22 and 23 September, focusing on two lesser-known aspects of her life:
- His career as an opera artist
- Her involvement in freemasonry, anarchism and feminism. alex
We had the pleasure of visiting the magnificent collection donated by Martine and Léon Cligman, exhibited at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Fontevraud, where we found a few pieces from our collection. The quality of the pieces on display and the scenography justify a visit.
Shamans of the blind countryMICHAEL OPPITZ
His legendary publication
Morphologie der Schamanentrommel
was originally published in German.
It has just been translated and published as
Shamans of the blind country
A picture book from the Himalaya
Professor Oppitz will present and sign the book at the Toit du Monde on the afternoon of September 1st.
RECIT DE VIEBy Alexander W. Macdonald
Anne Vergati has just published a manuscript by Alexander W. Macdonald.
Its sub-title "From Indian Army fighter to Himalayan ethnologist" gives a glimpse into parts of the life of this great researcher that are not well known.
On October 7, 2021, the presentation will take place at the Galerie Le Toit du Monde.
Homage to Jean-Luc CortesTraveler, dealer, collector and self-taught researcher
Jean-Luc Cortes' contribution to the study of Western Nepalese art
par le Dr David C. Andolfatto
September 7, 2021 - 6:30 pm at Le Toit du Monde Gallery
This tribute evening will present the work of Jean-Luc Cortes for the recognition of the arts of Western Nepal. Jean-Luc Cortes, who passed away in July 2021, remains to this day one of the few Himalayan art dealers and collectors to have gone into the field, not (to our knowledge) to collect objects, but to better understand their cultural context. It is partly through the book La Statuaire Primitive de l'Ouest du Népal, published in 2011 but remained very confidential, that we will evoke the arts of this little known region of Nepal, their perception since the middle of the XXe century as well as the scientific contribution of this passionate Nepalese.
