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Thomas Tjapaltjarri 122 x 152 cm
Tingari and Cives
from the 3rd to 20th december 2008

Tingari, Stained Glass, Circles, Cives, the first art of Australian Aboriginals or glass in its cathedral. This exhibition is a hymn to the talented one who has received the gift.

Description

A meeting at the heart of the elements. The foundations of the sacred.

In the iconographic systems of Central and Western Desert Aborigines, Tingari are portrayed as more or less concentric roundels,, usually but not always interconnected by roughly parallel lines.

The roundels are connected in this prismatic, crystalline structure primarily to signify that the men or women are co-initiates, a fact that forges powerful new kinship bonds binding them to one another for life.
“Atomic bonding” is therefore an accurate visual metaphor for the deep connections that exist between the individuals, eternally tying them to a powerful group-identity based on place, classificatory kinship interconnections, their shared, life-altering experience of initiation, and a non-negotiable set of mutual obligations and responsibilities.

The glass sculptures by Catherine Farge combine in a unique way mineral and plant, glass and wood in an aerial and almost musical dance of the elements. They often have wind names, as breath presided over the creation of "cives". Under this unusual term, are discs obtained by cutting the glass bubble, which opens in corolla that are flatted on the pontile. The cives are used by glassmaker who then cut them to there will.

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Thomas Tjapaltjarri
122 x 152 cm