Post #334619 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Sep 24, 2007 2:01 PM

Here are some impressions from the Tiki Modern Tour. First two photos are from Harry's Harbor Bazaar in Hamburg, which is just around the corner of the Hasenschaukel where the event took place.

This amazing store resembles the European ethnology museums at the turn of the century, a non-didactic jumble of primitive idols and fetishes that inspired moderns like Picasso and Giacometti to redefine what "art" was:

These are just TWO of many rooms and corridors filled to the hilt with vintage tourist art.

(note the vacuum cleaner on the floor)

Jochen and Tanja view TIKI MODERN for the first time...

Jochen's movie is turning out really really good! (He will announce its release here soon)

Berlin at night:

Typical Berlin "art performance"

At the Eiszeit Kino: Demonstrating it IS possible to hold Tiki Modern AND a Mai Tai at the same time!

Hula Punk Live

True Tiki Trooper Trader Jim and lovely Sian the Beachcomber

The Brits show the gray clad Germans how to wear the proper Polynesian patterns!

Sunday trip to the Berlin Ethnology Museum in Dahlem, which has been splendidly re-organized since I visited it last.

Their South Seas collection is spectacular, some of its pieces inspired artists like the Surrealists and the Moderns.

Three Tikis: BOT cover artist Moritz R., urban archeologist (and Tiki Tour promoter) Lurker Grand, and authentic Marquesan carving

The boys providing human scale for one of the Men's club houses

Me with the Marquesan stone head collected by Karl von den Steinen

For Naomi: Beautiful large Nukuoro statue!

This Ethnology museum was once called "The mother of all Museums" because of its collection's influence.

The greatest, most pleasant surprise greeted me at the end, in the Museum's bookstore, where I found TIKI MODERN displayed among all the latest academic art books on Oceanic art! Things truly have come full circle for me :)