Fondation Cartier exhibition on the Voodoo set up by Enzo Mari

The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents for the first time an exceptional group of objects Voodoo in shows in a scene staged by Enzo Mari , one of the great masters of Italian industrial design. Kerchache Jacques, explorer, died ten years ago before he could organize the exhibition, so to call Enzo Mari, famous for his candor and simplicity seemed to be the right choice and is organized in close collaboration with the wife of the collector , in the late sixties, had recognized the “amazing originality and aesthetic power” of statuary voodoo.
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It was during his travels who first entered Benin in the current and began to piece together what has become the most important collection of sculpture existing African voodoo.

The exhibition presents approximately one hundred objects , including some who now belong to other private collectors.

Through its simplicity, rigor and meditative silence, the design of the exhibition allows these objects impervious to speak : ” I figured Jacques kerchache arrived for the first time in Benin, with some idea of the subject, but no direct experience. Perhaps the first thing he saw was the larger pieces, standing in front of the houses of a village. Then he would talk to someone, heard some stories, he found more items. Similarly, visitors to this exhibition, they will discover objects more secrets. “says Enzo Mari.

The designer, who recently published an autobiography, he had the find everything to make contact with during a trip to Voodoo in the 90s and witnessed scenes of ecstasy and sacrifice.