Friday, July 12, 2013

Shaping Power: Luba Masterworks from the Royal Museum for Central Africa

A new exhibition on Congolese tribal art opened this week at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Shaping Power: Luba Masterworks from the Royal Museum for Central Africa brings together twenty-six transfixing pieces of Luba art on loan from RMCA in Belgium, including masks, figural works, and a range of ritual and court art. 




Memory board, lukasa

Mask  -  19th century

Caryatid stool  -  19th century

Figurative pipe  -  19th century

Bowl-bearer  -  19th century

Images courtesy of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art


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