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Lothar Baumgarten’s work made with two Yanomami tribes in the Amazonian region at the Museum Folkwang

ESSEN.- On the 25th of November, the Museum Folkwang opened the exhibition Evening of Time- Señores Naturales, conceived by Lothar Baumgarten in cooperation with the architect Lorenzo Piqueras. The presentation showed an ethnological collection of everyday objects, drawings, films and audio recordings which the artist put together during his 18 month stay with two Yanomami tribes in the Amazonian region and which he donated to the Museum Folkwang in 2010. The semi-nomadic Yanomami are settled in the Venezuelan-Brazilian border region in the Sierra Parima mountain range and in the watershed of the Orinoco and Amazon tributaries Rio Negro and Rio Branco. The Yanomami, who live from agriculture, hunting and gathering, live in round settlements called shabono. Their daily life is composed of shaman rituals, maintaining alliances and friendships with neighboring shabonos and reciprocal visits during celebrations. The Yano