The book is a documentation of the exhibition from 2019-2020, Ernest Mancoba – An Artist and His Legacy

Ernest Mancoba draws on life experiences ranging from early memories of his family’s relationships to the ancestors, to education in the field of journalism and later on in art education in Paris, as well as a deep and rooted artistic practice in Denmark. We encounter an artist with a focused and careful relationship towards artistically researching man’s position here on earth. An artist who is not afraid of debating Europe’s one-sided relationship to the African continent and its artforms in a time of the many breakthroughs of modernism within art. Works of Ernest Mancoba from the Danish collections of the Ernest Mancoba Sonja Ferlov Estate in Denmark as well as Museum Jorn Silkeborg. Also artworks by the contemporary artists Kitso Lynn Lelliott, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Chloé Quenum, Myriam Mihindou, Mathewsie Amidlak, Nkuli Mlangeni Berg and James Webb that are inspired by or related to the legacy of Ernest Mancoba.

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