Ernest Mancoba
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 1, n/d, Oil on canvas, 16.5 x 13 in
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 2, ca. 1965, Oil on canvas, 25.5 x 19.5 in
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 3, n/d, Oil on canvas, 22 x 18 in
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 4, n/d, Oil on canvas, 22 x 18 in
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 5, n/d, Ink on paper, 23 x 16.5 in
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 6, n/d, Ink and oil pastel on paper, 23 x 16.5 in
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 7, n/d, Ink on paper, 23 x 16.5 in
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 8, 1990, Ink and oil pastel on paper, 16.5 x 23 in
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 9, n/d, Ink and oil pastel on paper, 20 x 25.5 in
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 10, n/d, Ink and oil pastel on paper, 20 x 25.5 in
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 11, 1993, Ink and oil pastel on paper, 12 x 16.5 in
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 12, n/d, Oil pastel on paper, 14.5 x 20.5 in
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 13, n/d, Ink on paper, 19.5 x 13 in
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 14, n/d, Ink and watercolour on paper, 18 x 11.5 in
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 15, n/d, Ink on paper, 17.5 x 12 in
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 16, ca.1975, Ink and oil pastel on paper, 16.5 x 11.5 in
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 17, 1990, Ink and oil pastel on paper, 10.5 x 15 in
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 18, 1990, Ink and oil pastel on paper, 10.5 x 15 in
Ernest Mancoba, Untitled 19, n/d, Ink on paper, 15 x 10.5 in
Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Untitled 1, 1958, Bronze, 8 x 5 x 6 in
Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, L'arche, ca. 1964, Bronze, 23.5 x 17 x 16 in
Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Guardians of our Inheritance, 1973, Bronze, 12 in. height
Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Mask Totem, Started 1977, Bronze, 22 x 12.5 x 5 in
Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Growth, 1967-68, Bronze, 15 x 9 x 6.5 in
Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Untitled 2, n/d, Bronze, 8.5 x 7 x 10.5 in
Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Untitled (Lille Sol 2. udgave), n/d, Bronze, 6 x 4 x 5.5 in
Aicon Art is delighted to present Sonja Ferlov Mancoba | Ernest Mancoba, an important and timely exhibition that considers the creative impulses of two artists that were instrumental in founding the CoBrA avant-garde art movement. It will be the first major show in the United States of Sonja Ferlova Mancoba and the second of Ernest Mancoba (following the very successful first solo of the artist at Aicon in February, 2017). Sonja Ferlov Mancoba | Ernest Mancoba is the first exhibition of the two artists since their Centre Pompidou 2019 show (June 26 to September 29, 2019).
The exhibition juxtaposes a suite of canvases and drawings with a series of inspired sculptures tracing both artists’ heritage – Danish and South African respectively – and recording the profound influence they had on each other’s work. Aicon Art’s show is in generous partnership with Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen and the Ferlov Mancoba Estate.
Installation photography by Sebastian Bach
If museums are serious about globalizing their collections, it won't do just to pick out a few Africans or Asians or Latin Americans whose art superficially resembles what the West already approbates. Art history has to be preconceived as a perpetual migration of artists, images and ideas - across oceans, across decades. A sterling case study awaits in the upstairs space of Aicon Gallery, displaying the lean, precise, calligraphic abstractions of Ernest Mancoba (1904 - 2002), a South African painter who spent his career in Denmark and France.
