Charles Freger - Wilder Mann (2010) - A series exploring human fascination with myth, ritual and tradition
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The Christmas season has long been a time of fun, food and festive good cheer. But, since it began, it has also been full of traditions, whether unique to families or society as a whole.
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Through this performance, the artist analyses the way in which a ritual may be revealing of the weaknesses within a society.
Copyright Gloria Lemay 2014 The birth of a baby is a time to really consider what family traditions should be kept and what family traditions should be discarded. It can be a time to get creative a…
Germany You might not know it, but we’re in the middle of pagan ritual season! Every year from December until Easter, people from every country in Europe partake in pagan rituals in order to honor the planet’s annual cycle of death and rebirth. Several years ago Charles Fréger set out to document the many costumes used all over Europe for pagan rituals, visiting 18 countries on his journey to pin down the archetype of the “Wild Man” that transcends any one culture. The pictures were then collected in a marvelous book called Wilder Mann. The costumes he found resemble something out of commedia dell’arte or Día de los Muertos, only far deeper and far stranger. They clearly represent the devil, billy goats, wild boars, and bizarre conflagrations thereof, using all manner of masks, straw, horns, pine twigs, antlers, bells, fur, and bones. As it happens, I’ve attended pagan rituals myself, in rural Austria, and I’ve met men who work on their intricate, large, wooden Krampus masks all year long in preparation for the fantastical Krampus “performance” in early December. I mention this as a prelude to explaining that (in my opinion) telling the...
for his solo show at helsinki's kiasma museum, ernesto neto pays homage to the traditions and rituals of the huni kuin indigenous peoples.
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Durant deux années en 2010 et 2011, Charles Fréger a sillonné l’Europe du nord au sud, de la Finlande au Portugal en passant par la Roumanie, l’Allemagne ou la Slovénie, à la recherche de la figure du sauvage telle qu’elle survit dans les traditions populaires locales. Ces images comme des archétypes, mi-homme mi-bête, animal ou
Die Fotos von Charles Fréger zeigen den Menschen als Wesen zwischen Natur und Kultur. Faszinierend und furchterregend wirken die rituellen Kostüme aus Stroh und Fell.
This article looks at the meaning of Aboriginal art from Central Australia where aboriginal dot art originated. Aboriginal art meaning
Ochre is the original medium used for thousands of years as body paint by the Aboriginal people of Australia. It is also now used on Aboriginal Artworks.
Chicago artist Nick Cave (no, not the musician) gives a free talk about his “Soundsuits” (pictured) at the RISD Audit...
Durant deux années en 2010 et 2011, Charles Fréger a sillonné l’Europe du nord au sud, de la Finlande au Portugal en passant par la Roumanie, l’Allemagne ou la Slovénie, à la recherche de la figure du sauvage telle qu’elle survit dans les traditions populaires locales. Ces images comme des archétypes, mi-homme mi-bête, animal ou
The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift were a back-to-nature youth movement in the 1920s that wanted to build a better world. Head back in time to their tribal training camp – a riot of hooded men, homemade handicrafts, ritual dances and animal spirit chiefs
Winster Morris, Derbyshire. [photo: Doc Rowe]
Steeped in tradition, the masks and costumes worn by festival goers are meant to inflict terror on bad spirits.
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for his solo show at helsinki's kiasma museum, ernesto neto pays homage to the traditions and rituals of the huni kuin indigenous peoples.
