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BONNE ESPERANCE GALLERY

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Bonne Esperance Gallery is an invitation to discover South Africa’s contemporary creative effervescence. Located in the heart of Paris, the gallery exhibits emerging and established artists at the crossroads of art, craft and design. From Cape Town to Johannesburg, from Durban to Pretoria, Bonne Esperance is a dive into the creative geography of South Africa and neighboring countries, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia. Open to the curious, to amateurs and to collectors, Bonne Espérance gallery is a new voice given to this singular artistic scene in Africa by its authenticity, its crossed influences and its opening on the world. Founded by Scott Billy, an American who lived in Johannesburg for 25 years, and his associate Kari Smith, the gallery offers a regular program of exhibitions of emerging and established artists, designers and craftsmen, all linked by elective affinities, who are representative of the contemporary African art scene.

Artist presented at AKAA 2022:
Ubuhle Collective

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Ubuhle Collective +

Ubuhle is a collective of women artists from the rural Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa, who create shimmering light paintings by hand-sewing thousands of glass beads onto canvas which is then stretched onto a chassis. Ubuhle, which means “beauty” in Zulu and Xhosa, currently consists of four women – Zondile Zondo, Zandile Ntobela, Thando Ntobela and Ntombephi “Induna” Ntobela. What started as a humble project, using traditional skills to create independence and give rural artists hope, has evolved into the artists of Ubuhle stunning the world with their mesmerizing fine art. By being recognised as International artists, these women have challenged the traditional perception of rural women and showcased them as the dignified, gifted, dedicated artists that they are.

Emangele

2020

67 x 44 cm
Glass beads hand-sewn onto fabric and stretched onto a chassis
© Stéphane Deroussent
Courtesy Bonne Espérance Gallery

9000€
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Puzzles, Circles and Patterns

2020

100 x 80 cm
Glass beads hand-sewn onto fabric and stretched onto a chassis
© Bonne Espérance Gallery
Courtesy Bonne Espérance Gallery

13000€
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Clouds of Dreams

2020

65 x 42 cm
Glass beads hand-sewn onto fabric and stretched onto a chassis
© Udo Kleisch
Courtesy Bonne Espérance Gallery

7000€
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Exaltation

2020

48 x 80 cm
Glass beads hand-sewn onto fabric and stretched onto a chassis
© Udo Kleisch
Courtesy Bonne Espérance Gallery

10000€
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Stages of Growth

2020

92 x 38 cm
Glass beads hand-sewn onto fabric and stretched onto a chassis
© Udo Kleisch
Courtesy Bonne Espérance Gallery

8000€
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