Nationally-touring exhibition celebrates Ethiopia's vibrant culture and rich artistic legacy
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Nationally-touring exhibition celebrates Ethiopia's vibrant culture and rich artistic legacy
Frey Seyon, Diptych with Mary and Her Son Flanked by Archangels, Apostles and a Saint. Late 15th century. Tempera on wood. Left panel: 10 x 7½ x ¾ in., right panel: 0 x 7½ x ¾ in. The Walters Art Museum. W. Alton Jones Acquisition Fund, 2001, from Nancy and Robert Nooter Collection. 36.12.



TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art invites visitors to explore the vibrant culture and rich artistic legacy of Ethiopia in a new exhibition making its debut on August 17, 2024. Co-organized by PEM, the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and the Toledo Museum of Art, Ethiopia at the Crossroads is the first major touring exhibition to examine Ethiopian art in a global context. The exhibition features more than 200 objects made over the span of 2,000 years, including religious icons, illuminated manuscripts, gospel books, coins, metalwork and carvings. Historic art objects are paired with contemporary works by Ethiopian artists such as Wosene Worke Kosrof, Julie Mehretu, Helina Metaferia, Aïda Muluneh and Elias Sime.

Seated in the Horn of Africa between Europe and the Middle East, Ethiopia is an intersection of diverse cultures, religions and climates. Ethiopia at the Crossroads celebrates the enormous impact this often-overlooked African nation has had on the world by looking at the evolution of the region’s history, creativity and cross-cultural exchange over the centuries. The exhibition includes important works from the co-organizing museums and is further strengthened by key loans from American, European and Ethiopian lenders.

In the galleries, visitors will discover a sensory-rich experience featuring the sights, sounds and scents reflecting Ethiopia’s unique context. Although Ethiopia has endured multiple revolutions and upheavals over time, it has the distinction of maintaining its independence as one of the only African nations to resist colonization. Videos in the exhibition feature members of the local Ethiopian diaspora community, which includes an estimated 12,000 people in the Greater Boston area alone.

Religious art underscores how Ethiopia has long been a meeting point of the three major Abrahamic religions. Works on display include objects related to the Queen of Sheba, the Ethiopian Queen whose union with King Solomon of Israel bore a dynastic line of Ethiopian kings lasting two millenia. The exhibition features a gospel book from the early 14th century (making it the oldest Ethiopian manuscript in a North American collection) as well as 15th-century paintings by Italian artists working alongside local artists at the Ethiopian Court. There are also objects by 20th-century artists in Harär, a Holy City of Islam in Eastern Ethiopia renowned for its women makers’ development of distinctive patterned baskets and bowls.
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In addition to stunning historical material, Ethiopia at the Crossroads includes several important contemporary artworks, such as mixed media collages by multidisciplinary artist Helina Metaferia that feature women adorned in elaborate headdresses containing messages and symbols of resistance and change.










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