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‘New Ireland: Art of the South Pacific’ exhibit opens at Saint Louis Art Museum
The St. Louis Art Museum has opened New Ireland: Art of the South Pacific, which will run through Jan. 7, 2007. The exhibition contains art objects from a group of remote islands located in the southwest Pacific Ocean. The exhibition opens in St. Louis-–its only U.S. venue–before traveling to Paris and Berlin.
The exhibition’s works include masks and sculpture and represent New Ireland’s 12 known independently created art traditions.
New Ireland is best known for malagan ritual traditions, which are practiced throughout the northern part of the islands. This ancient custom, honoring the ancestors in a family’s clan, uses carved and painted sculptures to illustrate relationships between the living and the dead. Isolated from mainstream trends, artists drew upon their inner resources and natural surroundings to create unique works of art representative of the human soul.
Admission is $6 for adults, $5 for students and seniors, $4 for children ages 6-12, and free for children age six and under. For more information, call 314-721-0072 or visit, www.slam.org.
