id: 308820 accession number: 2018.5 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.5 updated: 2025-06-28 05:02:45.187000 Totem 01/01–18 (Baga-Batcham-Alunga-Kota), 2018. Hervé Youmbi (Cameroonian, b. Central African Republic, 1973). Wood, glass beads, thread, glue, and silicone adhesive; overall: 188 x 53 x 38 cm (74 x 20 7/8 x 14 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust, 2018.5 title: Totem 01/01–18 (Baga-Batcham-Alunga-Kota) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2018 creation date earliest: 2018 creation date latest: 2018 current location: creditline: Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust copyright: --- culture: Africa, Central Africa, Cameroon technique: Wood, glass beads, thread, glue, and silicone adhesive department: African Art collection: African Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Hervé Youmbi (Cameroonian, b. Central African Republic, 1973) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 188 x 53 x 38 cm (74 x 20 7/8 x 14 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Axis Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 2018 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2018- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Malaquais, Dominique. “Imag(IN)ing Racial France, Take 3 – Herve Youmbi.” In Public Culture 23:1 (2011). page number: url: Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. “In the Long Shadows of Euro-America, or, What is Global Contemporary,” African Arts 48, no. 2 (Summer 2015): 10-11. page number: url: Malaquais, Dominique. “Playing (in) the Marketfield: Herve Youmbi and the Art World Maze,” In Cahiers d’etudes africaines, no. 223 (2016): 559-579. page number: url: Forni, Silvia. “Masks on the Move: Defying Genres, Styles, and Traditions in the Cameroonian Grassfields.” In African Arts 49, no. 2 (Summer 2016) page number: Pg. 38-53 url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/6034992827 König, Kasper, Britta Peters, and Marianne Wagner. Skulptur Projekte Munster 2017. Leipzig: Spector Books, June 10 – October 1, 2017. page number: url: Forni, Silvia and Dominique Malaquais. "Village Matters, City Works: Ideas, Technologies, and Dialogues in the Work of Herve Youmbi." Critical Interventions, 12, issue 3 (2018): 294-305. page number: Reproduced and mentioned; p. 303, fig. 15 url: Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. "Contemporary African Art." Cleveland Art (September/October 2018): 8-9. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: P. 9. url: https://www.clevelandart.org/print/magazine/cleveland-art-septemberoctober-2018/contemporary-african-art Ugochukwu-Smooth, C. Nzewi. “Contemporary African Art: Two new works add a twist to canonical forms.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 58, no. 5 (September/October 2018): 8-9. page number: Reproduced: P. 9; Mentioned: P. 8, 9. url: Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Second Careers : Two Tributaries in African Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019 page number: Reproduced: p. 20, fig. 5 (foreground), p. 21, fig. 6, p. 24, fig. 12 (right); mentioned: p. 20. url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1090438741 Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Second Careers : Two Tributaries in African Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019 page number: Reproduced: p. 20, fig. 5 (foreground), p. 21, fig. 6, p. 24, fig. 12 (right); mentioned: p. 20. url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1090438741 Forni, Silvia and Dominque Malaquais. "Village Matters, City Works: Ideas, Technologies, and Dialogues in the Work of Hervé Youmbi," In Critical Interventions 12, issue 3, (2018): 294-305. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 303, fig. 15 url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/8586017039 Griswold, William M. “Recent Acquisitions (2013-20) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Burlington Magazine 163, no. 1414 (January 2021): 93-104. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 104, no. 23; mentioned: P. 93 url: --- IMAGES