ARTE POPOLARE DELL’AFRICA CENTRO-ORIENTALE, Figura maschile, Fine XX-inizio XXI secolo sculture co-founder of the De Stijl

co-founder of the De Stijl movement and a key figure of the 20th century

Printed for the typographic part at the Hofer printing house in Paris

emerging from the thick of the clouds

In parte anticipano la cultura visiva giapponese moderna

Printed in 1995 in a total of 100 copies on Rosaspina paper from the Lombardi art printing house

ARTE POPOLARE DELL’AFRICA CENTRO-ORIENTALE, Figura maschile, Fine XX-inizio XXI secolo sculture co-founder of the De StijlStatue in mahogany carved and pigmented, from Uganda. The style is inspired by the traditions of the Congolese basin, particularly from the tribes of Songye and Luba. The geometric and chromatic decorations on the face refer to a symbolic language related to protection and belonging; they are signs that do not have a unique and codified meaning: they were fluid codes, readable only by the initiated, and varied from clan to clan. The circle, for