Second Skins: Painted Barkcloth from New Guinea and Central Africa

Monday, April 9, 2012
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Fowler Museum - Galleries

Fowler Museum at UCLA

See below for additional information.

Admission

Admission is free and open to the public

Contact

DEPT OF WORLD ARTS & CULTURES
(310) 825-4361
fowlerprograms@arts.ucla.edu

Website

http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/current

Additional Information

Second Skins juxtaposes two separate traditions of fabricating vibrantly graphic clothing from the inner bark of trees: one shared by diverse peoples who live in and around the Ituri rainforest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the other produced by the ?mie of Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific.

Focusing on twentieth century and contemporary iterations of possibly ancient traditions, the exhibition will explore barkcloth?s contemporary ?migration? from the body to the gallery wall, highlighting the genre?s artistic inventiveness and the differing ways the two traditions have interacted with the international art market.

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