Las Formas de lo Sagrado, at La Abadía...
1:32 p.m.
07/18/16 - The Pre-Hispanic artistic production of Northern Argentina was originated, mainly, through the universe of worship. Shamanic rituals needed special objects, different to those used daily, to interact with the Gods and ancestors.
The exhibition opened now at the Centro de Arte y Estudios Latinoamericanos La Abadía displays several of these objects, in stone and metal, used to trascendental communication. The vessels we show here might have been used by shamans who, after drinking a mixture of "chicha" and cebil (tree) powder, would embody the summoned ancestor.
Vaso Ceremonial. Ciénaga. Formativo 500 a.C - 450 d.C.
Stone. Argentine Chancery Collection.
Vaso Ceremonial. Aguada. Integración Regional 450 - 900 d.C.
Stone. Argentine Chancery Collection.
Metal workers and carvers must have enjoyed social recognition thanks to their skill and technological, cosmogonic and cosmological knowledge. The small number of these vessels (not more than 30), their artistic excellence and material complexity are enough proof to demonstrate that they were destined to those with religious and political responsibilities. The plaques would represent the Shaman, who had the powers of the represented night-hunting animals: alligators, snakes, felines, all of them depicted with just a few lines, yet so clear, that they cause admiration.
Placa Aguada. Integración Regional (450-900 d.C.)
Bronze - Argentine Chancery Collection.
The stone representation of the ancestors, in the hands of the "curacas chamanes" (shamans) as group founders, was displayed by the “suplicantes”. The religiousness of these groups was determined by the worship of the ancestors (origins of the community) and the “curaca-chamán” was the social, economic and religious authority.
Suplicante Alamitos
Origin: Catamarca. Formativo 500 a.C. -450 d.C.
Stone. Museo de La Plata Collection
(To be continued...)
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