THE TRIBES OF THE OMO (PHOTOS OF HANS SYLVESTER) On the borders of Ethiopia, to centuries of modernity, Hans Sylvester photographed for six years tribes where men, women, children, old people, are geniuses of ancestral art. At their feet, the river Omo, riding on a triangle Ethiopia-Sudan-Kenya, the Great Rift Valley which separates slowly from Africa, a volcanic area that provides a huge palette of pigments, ochre red, kaolin white, green copper, yellow light or grey ash. They have the genius of painting, and their bodies of two meters high is a huge canvas. The strength of their art takes in three words: fingers, speed and freedom. They draw hands open, the tip of your nails, sometimes with a piece of wood, a Reed, a crushed stem. Sharp, fast, spontaneous gestures beyond childhood, this critical movement that seek the great contemporaries masters when they learned a lot and try everything to forget. Only the desire to decorate, to seduce, to be beautiful, a game and a permanent pleasure. It´s enough for them to dip the fingers in clay and in two minutes, on the chest, breasts, pubic hair, legs, there was nothing less than a Miro, a Picasso, a Pollock, a Tàpies, a Klee born...
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 06:53:22 +0000
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