The Cannes gallery specialised in contemporary pottery and jewellery turns its attention abroad with an exhibition celebrating Mandela’s legacy: Impossible Until Done!
Fundamentally Mekanova is the work space of artistic metal-founder Hubert Lafon and contemporary jewellery designer and ceramicist Barbara Schull, his wife. In their Cannes studio-cum-showroom they show talented young street-sensitive artists alongside established creators, and additionally have an exhibition space that is now broadening its horizons. In collaboration with Nomaza Nongqunga, founder of the Undiscovered Canvas platform that works to promote emerging contemporary artists from Africa, particularly South Africa, in Europe, Mekanova is hosting three big exhibitions this year. “This socially committed art scene speaks to me very loudly,” says Lafon. “In a country that experienced apartheid, it looks at history through two sets of eyes.” The first exhibition, running until 1 July, presents five artists working in varying disciplines and represented by Art Eye Gallery in Johannesburg, among others. Expressionist painter, trilingual poet and dancer Thokozani Mthiyane has developed a multicultural aesthetic by combining physical objects into his paintings. Toni Bico is profoundly influenced by a childhood spent on a remote Mozambican cattle farm. Giggs Kgole speaks to us of rural Limpopo, telling of struggles, abandonment, broken promises and dreams put on hold. A particular feature of his work is the use of anaglyphs: he prints two versions of a composite photo onto a canvas then adds collage and painting. We then view the work through spectacles with one red lens and one blue, which creates a dramatic 3D effect.
Du mardi au samedi, de 10 h à 12 h 30 et de 16 h à 19 h.
Cannes Forville,
16 rue des Halles
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