Ernest Mancoba, Exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris: 26 June-23 September 2019

Ernest Mancoba (1904-2002) was an artist, writer and thinker who moved to Paris fleeing from the apartheid in South Africa. Mancoba and his wife were involved in the early days of the CoBrA avant-garde movement that privileged automatic expression and chromatic freedom related to communicating with the subconscious and formulating the unspoken. However, Mancoba did not remain long in CoBrA, since his abstraction was questioned, and underlying racism relegated him to the status of an invisible man or "black dot" in the movement.

The exhibition, both thematic and chronological, is a kind of initiatory experience in which Mancoba’s relentless search for "the central figure" is omnipresent, and the different parts of the exhibition radiate around it.

Centre Pompidou

Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris