African terracotta and camel/brown colour Kuba cloth runner

African terracotta and camel colour Kuba cloth runner

Dimensions: 372 cm long a 60 cm high
Dimensions: 12'2½" long x 2'0" high

In sub-Saharan Africa, where representative art has flourished for centuries, carvers and crafts people have typically taken for their subjects human figures, animals, plants, and elements of the natural world. Abstract art, meanwhile, has remained marginal. The textiles of the BaKuba (Kuba) people of the Democratic Republic of Congo are an exception. Although part of a tradition that stretches back 400 years, Kuba textiles have a strikingly modern look. They use improvised systems of signs, lines, colors, and