L’extraordinaire epopee artistique du clan Kauage en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee. L’art papou du clan Kauage : entre tradition et modernite urbaine.Une mise en scene remarquable de l’emergence du grand peintre Mathias Kauage en 1969 et de son ecole, dont l’activite s’est generee pendant son vivant et developpee apres sa mort en 2003. Dans son sillage se forme le Clan Kauage : famille, amis et artistes poursuivirent son oeuvre, d’abord en le copiant, puis en s’en demarquant progressivement. Ils finirent par se poster en face de l’Holiday Inn, le long d’un trottoir pourvu d’une grille se pretant a l’affichage de leurs toiles en aplats surlignes. C’est un trottoir creatif, surprenant, sans cesse renouvele, sublime entreprise de developpement durable qui exulte au sein de la plus grande aventure artistique contemporaine que la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee ait connue. *** Here we are in Papua New Guinea, in front of a large hotel, where street painters have been installed for years. They have a gate facing the main exit, enough to hang the canvases likely to arouse the envy of hotel guests wishing to leave with a gift for their family or friends.
It is a magical place! Papua New Guinea's most extravagant and spectacular contemporary art museum is across the street from the Holiday Inn in Port Moresby. Every morning for forty years, as soon as daybreak, a dozen painters take over the sidewalk, each meticulously placing his paintings in the place he has reserved. These artists offer colorful works for sale in which they express their mood, their way of seeing the world and their vision of the future.