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Pierrot Barra (1942–1999) was a Haitian Vodou artist and priest, who was president of a Bizango society.[1] He was well-known for his use of diverse materials to create “Vodou Things,” which functioned as charms or altars for the Vodou religion.
With his wife Marie Cassaise, Barra worked from the Iron Market of Port-au-Prince, where he made "Vodou repositories from toys, fabric, glass, sequins, goats' horns, rosaries, costume jewelry, compact mirrors, Christmas ornaments, crucifixes, and other discarded materials."[2] His Afro-Cuban dolls sold well, bought by locals to protect themselves.[3] He often used discarded American toys and dolls as the basis of his works, embellishing them with "charms, glitter, sequins, beads, and crosses that were originally intended for altars."[4] The most notable aspect of his works is rubber baby dolls.
His works have been featured in shows in Port-au-Prince, New York, Baltimore, New Orleans, Chicago, San Francisco, and Madrid, and he is the only Haitian artist to which an entire book is dedicated (Vodou Things: The Art of Pierrot Barra and Marie Cassaise by Donald J. Cosentino).[5]
- ^ Cosentino, Donald; History, University of California, Los Angeles. Fowler Museum of Cultural (1995). Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-930741-46-4.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "The Haitian Vodou Bottles and Sculptures by Pierrot Barra". Indigoarts.com. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
- ^ Apter, Andrew; Derby, Lauren (14 December 2009). Activating the Past: History and Memory in the Black Atlantic World. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 357. ISBN 978-1-4438-1790-5.
- ^ Cowen, Tyler (10 January 2009). Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures. Princeton University Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-4008-2518-9.
- ^ Cosentino, Donald (Winter 1999). "Pierrot Barra". African Arts. 32: 16.