ARTE POPOLARE DELL’AFRICA CENTRO-ORIENTALE, Figura maschile, Fine XX-inizio XXI secolo sculture Suzuki's interpretation as a distinction

Suzuki's interpretation as a distinction between "real image" (jitsuzō) and "illusion" (kyōzō) may seem overly philosophical

In his famous original screenprints

Printed in 1995 in a total of 100 copies on Rosaspina paper from the Lombardi art printing house

impressa da Mourlot Frères per l’editore Tériade

ARTE POPOLARE DELL’AFRICA CENTRO-ORIENTALE, Figura maschile, Fine XX-inizio XXI secolo sculture Suzuki's interpretation as a distinctionStatue in mahogany carved and pigmented, from Uganda. The style is inspired by the traditions of the Congolese basin, particularly from the tribes of Songye and Luba. The geometric and chromatic decorations on the face refer to a symbolic language related to protection and belonging; they are signs that do not have a unique and codified meaning: they were fluid codes, readable only by the initiated, and varied from clan to clan. The circle, for