{"id":26692,"title":"Art in the Congo","dimensions":"19,2 x 25 x 0,6 cm","date_begin":"1958-01-01","material":"Book","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"","cached_tag_list":"Monoculture Universal Exhibitions Brusselse Wereldtentoonstelling","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003eCatalogue of an art exhibition from the Belgian-Congo and Ruanda-Urandi section of the Brussels Universal Exhibition 1958\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":14,"permalink":"art-in-the-congo","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/060/795/medium_500/Image00022.jpg?1598354748","cached_actor_names":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/060/795/large/Image00022.jpg?1598354748","poster_credits":"scan: (c) M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi section, which included a Congolese village, branded by some as a modern-era human zoo, provided a contentious section of the Expo 58, and so was the art section of the exhibition. The Congo section was conceived to demonstrate the importance of the Belgian mission in the colony, which claimed to be a \u0026ldquo;profoundly human enterprise\u0026rdquo;. The majority of the Congolese invited to participate were educated citizens referred to by Belgians as \u0026lsquo;des \u0026eacute;volu\u0026eacute;s\u0026rsquo; (\u0026lsquo;the evolved\u0026lsquo;), but were made to perform \u0026lsquo;primitive\u0026rsquo; tasks. The idea of Belgian \u0026lsquo;civilising\u0026rsquo; work also informed the art exhibition, which primarily consisted of examples of traditional, or so-called \u0026ldquo;primitive\u0026rdquo; art, while modern Congolese art of that time was largely sidelined to the \u0026#39;Education\u0026#39; section. The chosen paintings were supposed to show how \u0026lsquo;native\u0026rsquo; art \u0026ldquo;adapted itself to the Christian way of thinking\u0026rdquo;. A much wider section was dedicated to the display of European artworks in a purposefully \u0026#39; primitive \u0026#39; and imitative style.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDe afdeling \u0026#39;Belgisch Congo en Ruanda-Urundi\u0026#39; \u0026ndash; waarin ook een Congolees dorp was gevestigd dat sommigen bestempelden als een moderne menselijke dierentuin \u0026ndash; vormde een controversieel gedeelte van de Expo 58, en dat gold ook voor het kunstgedeelte ervan. De Congo-afdeling was opgezet om het belang te demonstreren van de Belgische missie in de kolonie, die beweerde een \u0026#39;diepmenselijke onderneming\u0026#39; te zijn. De meerderheid van de Congolezen die waren uitgenodigd om deel te nemen, waren opgeleide burgers die door de (Franstalige) Belgen \u0026lsquo;des \u0026eacute;volu\u0026eacute;s\u0026rsquo; (ge\u0026euml;volueerden) werden genoemd, maar die ter plekke \u0026#39;primitieve\u0026#39; taken moesten uitvoeren. Het idee van een Belgi\u0026euml; dat aan \u0026#39;beschavingswerk\u0026#39; deed, vormde ook de inspiratie voor de kunsttentoonstelling. Die bestond voornamelijk uit voorbeelden van traditionele of zogenaamde \u0026#39;primitieve\u0026#39; kunst, terwijl de moderne Congolese kunst van die tijd grotendeels in de sectie \u0026#39;Onderwijs\u0026#39; werd gedropt. De gekozen schilderijen moesten tevens laten zien hoe de inheemse kunst \u0026ldquo;zich aanpaste aan de christelijke manier van denken.\u0026rdquo; Een veel omvangrijker deel was gewijd aan Europese kunstwerken die gemaakt waren in een doelbewust imiterende \u0026#39;primitieve\u0026#39; stijl.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}