ernest mancoba | exhibitions

Exhibition at Gold of Africa Museum, Cape Town 2006

Mancoba's oils, lithographs and sculptures are displayed together with examples of art from Africa and around the world that have thematic importance to his extraordinary life journey. They include selected pieces from Chinese, Inuit, Native American, Southern, West and North African as well as European traditions and, for the first time, his work is juxtaposed with southern African beadwork which has resonance with his colour strategies and narrative method. One of the remarkable terracotta Lydenburg heads dating from the eighth century is also on display.

The exhibition and artists' workshop are sponsored by the South African Department of Arts & Culture, the Royal Danish Embassy, the National Arts Council of South Africa, the CWCI Fund (an EU-SA partnership programme), the Gold of Africa Museum, the Cape Town City Council, Caltex Oil SA (Pty) Ltd and the Grand West Heritage Foundation. Selected artworks come from Galerie Mikael Andersen and the Bornholms Kunstmurem in Copenhagen, Iziko SA National Gallery and the Irma Stern museum in Cape Town, The Gordon Schachat Collection, the Johannesburg Art Gallery, The Totem Meneghelli gallery, private collectors and Museum Africa in Johannesburg as well as from private collections in Paris.

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