Julien Gauthier

Printemps Asiatique 拍賣——非洲藝術的別樣之旅

在过去一个世纪里，像这样的古代石刻在塞拉利昂南部农民的田野里相继显现。关于这一千余件幸存雕塑群的早期历史所知甚少。被他们的门德语和基西语发现者分别称作“nomoli（发现的精神）”或“pomdo（逝者）”，这些发现被理解为与遥远过去的奇迹性联系点。对相关木雕和陶器人物的科学分析将这一传统追溯至公元十世纪甚至更早。所描绘的对象包括坐姿人物、雕刻头部，以及人兽混合体。此例以其非凡的体量而著称。美术史学家弗雷德里克·兰普（Frederick Lamp）推测，这类创作与被称为“Sapi”的王族或祖先纪念物有关，Sapi是早期葡萄牙商人用来指称现今的Temne与Bullom社群的前身。 
 
出处：Jean-Michel Huguenin，巴黎

Over the past century, ancient stone carvings like this have surfaced in the fields of farmers in southern Sierra Leone. Little is known about the early history of this corpus of several thousand surviving sculptures. Referred to as nomoli (found spirit) or pomdo (the deceased) by their Mende and Kissi finders, respectively, these discoveries have been understood as wondrous points of connection to a distant past. Scientific analysis of related wood and ceramic figures dates this tradition back to as early as the tenth century C.E. The subjects depicted include seated figures, sculpted heads, and human-animal hybrids. This example is notable for its exceptional size. Art historian Frederick Lamp has hypothesized that such creations relate to royal or ancestral memorials commissioned by the Sapi, the name used by early Portuguese traders for the predecessors of today's Temne and Bullom communities.

Provenance: Jean-Michel Huguenin, Paris 

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