Representative pieces of the valuable collections of traditional African art that the Matanzas Art Museum treasures, are exhibited in the Office of the Conservator of the City of Matanzas (OCCM).
According to Yamila Gordillo, the Museum’s main specialist, traditional African art is characterized by production based on religious ideologies, and in a general sense, by being more symbolic than figurative.
The works, characterized by firm and synthetic lines, are a work in which the result, more than an iconography of aesthetic intentions, is the representation of their worldview, daily life and faith, said the specialist.
Made by anonymous artisans, the pieces on display respond to a cosmogony in which the ancestors and natural forces have a predominant place in the most pristine rites, explained Gordillo.
The diversity and creative complexity offered by the African continent allows the contrast between manifestations, themes, styles, dimensions, textures and materials used in objects such as masks, statuettes and tapestries, he stressed.
Darién Leyva, deputy director of Culture and Heritage of the OCCM, said that the exhibition responds to the purpose of maintaining a close connection between the Office and the institutions that preserve and promote the history and culture of Matanzas.
