Fabulous new Tribal Art Gallery...
... opens in Hoedspruit.
The African Tribes gallery exhibits collections of excellent tribal art collected in southern Africa during the last 30 years.
The gallery, in the Kamogelo Tourist centre, Hoedspruit, will also be holding monthly exhibitions concentrating on a wide range of different aspects of indigenous culture ranging from beadwork, basketry, pottery, weapons, medical and spiritual devices, ritual and cultural objects.
Alex Zaloumis, the owner, has spent many years studying and collecting African cultural objects, having written an authoritative book on Zulu Tribal Art published in 2001 and was sponsored by De Beers.
Alex is passionate about the conservation of our unique and diverse cultural heritage as many languages, rituals and customs have evolved and adapted to different physical environmental pressures, and until recently ensured the survival of the various groups of people found in southern Africa.
More importantly, our cultures are special, different and the diversity is an important national assets, being uniquely South African. As such they are a sustainable characteristic, marketable and will become an important tourist attraction.
Alex and his associates are involved with many 'self-help' projects where they have encouraged rural people to maintain their tradition skills and art as a source of sustainable income.
Unfortunately, many of the arts and crafts found in local curio shops and markets are imported into South Africa from northern African countries. They realised the income producing potential of their cultural skills a long time ago.
These different monthly exhibitions will open on the first Saturday of each month.
The African Tribes gallery exhibits collections of excellent tribal art collected in southern Africa during the last 30 years.
The gallery, in the Kamogelo Tourist centre, Hoedspruit, will also be holding monthly exhibitions concentrating on a wide range of different aspects of indigenous culture ranging from beadwork, basketry, pottery, weapons, medical and spiritual devices, ritual and cultural objects.
Alex Zaloumis, the owner, has spent many years studying and collecting African cultural objects, having written an authoritative book on Zulu Tribal Art published in 2001 and was sponsored by De Beers.
Alex is passionate about the conservation of our unique and diverse cultural heritage as many languages, rituals and customs have evolved and adapted to different physical environmental pressures, and until recently ensured the survival of the various groups of people found in southern Africa.
More importantly, our cultures are special, different and the diversity is an important national assets, being uniquely South African. As such they are a sustainable characteristic, marketable and will become an important tourist attraction.
Alex and his associates are involved with many 'self-help' projects where they have encouraged rural people to maintain their tradition skills and art as a source of sustainable income.
Unfortunately, many of the arts and crafts found in local curio shops and markets are imported into South Africa from northern African countries. They realised the income producing potential of their cultural skills a long time ago.
These different monthly exhibitions will open on the first Saturday of each month.
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
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