Roger Boulay (b. 1943)

Roger Boulay was born in 1943 in the Sarthe region of France. He defended his doctorate in ethnology in 1986, but it was in 1979 that the decisive meeting with Jean-Marie Tjibaou took place, which anchored him in an exclusive passion: Oceania. Since then, he has developed a policy of intense collaboration with Kanak cultural institutions which led him to be entrusted with the museographic program of the Tjibaou Cultural Center (Nouméa) along with Emmanuel Kasarhérou. As a well known curator of numerous exhibitions, he was commissioned in 2011 by the government of New Caledonia to produce, again with Emmanuel Kasarhérou, the inventory of all Kanak objects kept in French and European museums (IPKD).

some exhibitions:

- For the Quai Branly Museum - Jacques Chirac: The aristocrat and his cannibals, 2008 Tarzan, or Rousseau among the Wasiri, 2009 Kanak, art is a word (with Emmanuel Kasarhérou), 2013

Kanak notebooks, travel in inventory, 2020-2021

- For the National Museum of Arts of Africa and

Oceania: Of jade and mother-of-pearl, 1991 Arts of Vanuatu, 1996 Kannibals and Vahines, 2001

- For the Museum of New Caledonia, Nouméa: Of jade and mother-of-pearl, 1990

- For the Hèbre museum, Rochefort: Kanak notebooks, inventory trip, 2022 actual exhibition:

""Carnets Kanak - Voyage en inventaire de Roger Boulay"" 04/10/2022 - 12/03/2023Musée du Quai Branly- Jacques Chirac, Paris. #Carnetskanaks aRtWORk pResented BY:

Anthony J.P. Meyer

T.: +33 (0) 6 80 10 80 22

E.: ajpmeyer@gmail.com w.: www.meyeroceanic.art

Figures à planter

2021

Watercolor and pencil on paper

42 x 43 cm

Price: 950 euros

In our exhibition "Art Kanak & Roger Boulay" from 07/04 to 21/05 2022.