Tribal Art Sale - Pierre Berge et Associes

Pierre Berge will present a sale of fine tribal art and jewlery at the Druout Richelieu in Paris on February 12. The lots will comprise an extensive array of jewlery and silverwork from North Africa, masks from West Africa and the Himalayas, weapons from Oceania and the Congo, and more.

View the online catalogue.

Images courtesy of Pierre Berge et Associes

Sahara at the Museo delle Culture

In its final weeks at the Museo delle Culture in Lugano, Switzerland is an entrancing exhibition dedicated to the Swiss photographer Peter W. Häberlin (1912 - 1953) and is the seventh project of the “Esovisioni” exhibition cycle. This cycle is a long-term project of the Museo delle Culture with the objective to define a sort of “map” describing how the West has viewed (and judged) the Other. 

During their research, the museum staff unearthed the traces of Häberlin’s life through the diaries and accounts of his friends, travelling companions and remaining relatives. After two years of intense collaboration with the Swiss Foundation of Photography in Winterthur, the exhibition presents a rich selection of first prints, which were developed from the negatives conserved at the aforementioned Foundation.

Häberlin made his trans-Saharan reportage between 1949 and 1952: a vast series of photographs from four journeys, through which he followed the ancient caravan routes from Algiers, crossing the Saharan desert until he reached the North of Cameroon. Shortly after returning from his last trip, Häberlin died in a tragic accident in 1953, in the midst of his preparations for a new voyage to Mexico. 

Visit the exhibition's official website.

Information and images courtesy of the Museo delle Culture, Lugano