Aboriginal Australia

Music : 'Dance at Sunrise' by William Barton - from his current album The Journey


Travel-Regards to Australia

Crossing a border. Diving into a different environment. Leaving these habits born in childhood and then adapted, arranged. The diversified cultural approach presents however its own consistency.

The art also allows this adventure, in the blinking, or through the discovery, going from artistic universe to another, sometimes with a single artist.

When we drop the ropes twice and that we combine these 2 adventures, travel and artistic novelty, reading the works becomes more intriguing. By the way the scientist in his lab who realizes he has actually modify two parameters at the same time, the conclusions become less easy.

Yet it is on the path of these combinations that we drive you. The goal is to help build a cross, beyond a universalism sometimes too simplistic and the discovery of new intelligences.

After Mozambique with Michel Duport (April 2007), e-Land Arts invites you to discover this time another distant land : Australia. More precisely, it is artists native of the island continent, which we have firm, in line with the local Aboriginal culture.

On the territory that we hit, contemporary art is much closer to its social roots. Why do we live together? What path should we borrow? How to meet the land of our forefathers, we and those of our children? Is art the privilege of artists?

The Australian Aborigines offer answers from the mists of time, as heirs of the oldest continuous cultural history on Earth (50 millennia or more). The "dream time" (Tjukurpa in the anangu language ) explains for example the origins of their world, Australia and its people, and is the central theme of the culture of the Aborigines of Australia.

Thus, most Aboriginal tribes believe that all forms of life, including plants, animals and humans, are part of a broad and complex set of relationships that can be traced directly to the great spirits of the ancestors from the time dream. Such episodes have been transmitted by oral tradition and by rock paintings.

Another way to access this art is proposed by the testimony of Bertrand E., a collector.