{"id":3240,"date":"2023-01-01T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madayin.kluge-ruhe.org\/?p=3240"},"modified":"2023-03-05T20:48:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T20:48:19","slug":"art-collector-reviews-ma%e1%b8%8fayin-eight-decades-of-aboriginal-australian-bark-painting-from-yirrkala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madayin.kluge-ruhe.org\/art-collector-reviews-ma%e1%b8%8fayin-eight-decades-of-aboriginal-australian-bark-painting-from-yirrkala\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Collector reviews MA\u1e0eAYIN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Currently touring the USA is Ma\u1e0fayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Paintings from Yirrkala,<\/em> a collaboration between the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia and the Buku-Larr\u014bgay Mulka Centre<\/a> in Yirrkala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developed over seven years, Ma\u1e0fayin <\/em>(a Yol\u014bu term meaning sacred and hidden) has been curated with a strong focus on gurru\u1e6fu (the Yol\u014bu kinship system) which extends to people, Country, waterways and all they contain. It is the first major exhibition of bark painting to tour the USA and is entirely overseen by a curatorium of Yol\u014bu artists and knowledge holders from the Buku-Larr\u014bgay Mulka Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by an idea instigated by Djambawa Marawili<\/strong>, Ma\u1e0fayin <\/em>is designed to bring the included bark paintings to life by incorporating interwoven elements of song, dance and language. “This exhibition is a great opportunity for our people to come together and share our culture, and do research on our paintings,” says Marawili. “Our patters and designs have been laid on a certain Country, when the ancestors passed through naming it: ‘You are Marawili, this is your Country, this is your identity.’ Every individual clan has their own Ma\u1e0fayin, but there is also a Ma\u1e0fayin that brings all those clans together.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rather than relying on historical or chronological order, the exhibition takes in a much broader cultural context. It features work drawn from international public collections in addition to 33 newly commissioned pieces, including four large video projections of Yol\u014bu ceremonial dance by filmmaker and co-curator Ishmael Marika. <\/strong>“It’s a type of curation the Yol\u014bu were born into, it’s part of their system,” says Kade McDonald<\/strong> CEO of Agency Projects.<\/a> “The works might physically be on the wall, but they must be presented with song, they have a dance attributed to them, they represent a sacred place in Country. Everything interconnects and must make sense.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Embracing the separate yet interconnected moieties Yirritja and Dhuwa, Ma\u1e0fayin <\/em>unfolds in a unified whole with historical works mixed in with contemporary works. The idea behind this was to authentically reflect how Yol\u014bu see their culture. “We have these paintings for future generations to look upon and gain respect for those people that came before,” explains Marawili. “In that way, today we are making art for the children who are coming behind us, giving a clear message to them. It is something that we really need to make the art move in our eyes and our soul, to make it really do something important.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ma\u1e0fayin<\/em> will show in the USA at the American University Museum at the Katzen Art Centre, Washington D.C. from 4 February to 11 March; the Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach, from 22 August to 2 December; The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia from 25 January to 21 July 2024; and the Asia Society, New York from 24 September 2024 to 5 January 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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