Post #158364 by virani on Thu, May 12, 2005 12:27 PM

Hey,

So here's the news : we've been working for a few month on making a exhibition about tiki art.
Well, I mostly helped Cyril (uke player, tiki connoisseur) giving him contacts, helping him organising it with the museum owners.

So, here it is : the museum is at Sète, in the south of France, it is going to be from the 18th of June till the 30th of October (and then, probably in another museum).

There's going to be plenty of tiki art :

• real pre-contact tikis (on wood, stone)
• 2 huge resin moai
• 1 Vanuatu tiki drum
• Papouasian masks and other items
• Tiki poles made by Phil Totem, Karotte
• Tahitians carved ukuleles
• Contemporary Works by Kevin Ancell, Raymond Pettibond, Steicyk...
• Paintings by our own Moritz R, Hasenkamm, Sunny Buick
• Duke Carter will let us have a part of his huge tiki mug collection (about 150), and some velvet paintings he did.
• Otto should let the museum have some of his exhibition paintings
• our british fella Cheekytiki will make a fantastic real tiki bar, he will stay there to work on it for a few days.
• I will let them have some of my personnal collections : Aloha fezzes, Shag prints, ukes, paintings, mugs...
• Cyril's collection
• Film posters

And lots of different surf items, 50's artifacts...

The poster is made by Shag, there will be a catalog in July...

I'm very excited about that, and I really hope some of you could make it this summer.

[ Edited by: virani on 2005-06-20 10:49 ]