All Older Catalogues Are Finally On-Line / Tous Mes Anciens Catalogues sont Enfin En-Ligne : https://www.meyeroceanic.art/publications

This is an article that I published in 2003 on the manufacturing of fakes in Africa as the workshops there produce Oceanic Art fakes for the world market. Fakes are an unfortunate by product of the art market and while they do cause lots of trouble most of them can be detected if one is careful enough and learns how to spot the differences between the authentique and the spurious...Click here : Out of Africa

In a surprising turn of events Jeff Koons has taken the gun collection from actor Sean Penn and turned the weapons into a steel sculpture which Koons named ULI after the hermaphrodit figures of New Ireland. Click here for the story from ARTNET : Jeff Koons ULI Sean Penn

"...Internationally recognized expert, author, teacher and an exhibitor in many of the world's greatest art fairs, Anthony JP Meyer, based in Paris, traces the emergence of tribal materials as an art form, beginning with the first encounters of the European explorers with the source cultures of Africa, Oceania and the Americas in the 15th century, the appearance of the Cabinets of Curiosities formed largely by members of the upper class, and the advent of the collectors, dealers and museums who have played a significant role in the history and development of the Tribal Art Market.

La conference est annulée du fait de la situation sanitaire COVID-19

 

Créée à l’initiative de la Galerie Anthony Meyer, avec le concours des Amis du musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac et de la Société des Océanistes, la bourse d'une valeur de 6000 euros soutient une recherche sur les collections océaniennes conservées dans les musées en France métropolitaine et dans les départements, territoires et collectivités d’outre-mer. 

Il y a 40,000 ans, l’être humain, aux profondeurs de l’hiver perpétuel de l’Âge de Glace, a su créer une forme d’expression artistique remarquablement abouti. Seul nous reste des bribes - notamment ses sculptures en os, ivoire et pierre et bien sur les peintures et les outils de silex. Depuis, l’homme a rayonné sur la planète entière et même un peu au-delà vers la Lune. Partout il a poussé son expression plastique dans ses retranchements allant jusqu’à l’art conceptuel. De tous ces expressions plastiques seul ceux des peuplades de l’Arctique semblent avoir gardé un lien direct avec les premières réalisations artistiques de l’époque des glaciations. Les peuplades du Grand Nord, que ce soit de Sibérie, du Nord de l’Amérique ou du Groenland ont perpétuer à leur manière évolutive les représentations sculpturales animales et humaines y compris ceux de la métamorphose et le transformisme cher aux croyances animistes. Je vais vous emmener sur un long voyage visuel a la rencontre de ces magnifiques œuvres d’art universelle que nous ont légué les Eskimo depuis plusieurs milliers d’années et même jusqu’à hier…

ATTENTION : Due to the announced general strike on December 5th the Jeudi des Beaux-Arts will be held this WEDNESDAY December 4th 2019 from 6 to 8 pm !!

Celebrating the Christmas Spirit and the Holiday Season Galerie Meyer offers a Refined Selection of Large and Small Works of Art from the OCEANIC and ESKIMO Cultures in Conjunction with Modern Painters such as Eugene BRANDS / Joaquin FERRER / Sigmar POLKE / Alberto GUZMAN / Grégoire MICHONZE / Ladislas KIJNO / Antonious HÖCKELMANN...

Daniel Blau, Munich
Presents :
50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing
Half a century since Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot on the Moon, the NASA photographs from the Apollo XI mission remain as awe-inspiring as when they were first seen.Apollo XI was the first manned lunar landing. The photographs of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon are some of the defining images of the 20th century post-WWII, a time of rapid technology innovation and social change.
https://danielblau.com/50th-anniversary-of-the-moon-landing

TATTOO - Inked Identities

EXHIBITION

17 – 31 October 2019

Press Release

An exhibition on the fine art of Tattoo in the Pacific Island & Eskimo Cultures with a selection of early Tribal Art and early images from the periods of discovery and exploration – in conjunction with a Pop-Up Tattoo studio showcasing the work of Dmitry Babakhin, a Russian tattoo artist and Po’oino Yrondi, a Polynesian tattoo artist both specializing in Polynesian tattoo.

The Contemporary component will function as a temporary tattoo studio in the gallery offering on-site tattooing to a select number of collector-clients (see below for studio information).