BLACHERE FOUNDATION: "Chimeras" In 2016, the Blachère Foundation exhibited its collection of contemporary sculptures from Africa at the Palais des Papes, Petit Palais, Calvet Museum and Lapidaire Museum, a great first for our corporate foundation, the beginning of a dialogue between the Avignon town hall and today’s African visual arts. The objective of these exchanges: to learn about contemporary art that is being made on the other side of the Mediterranean, to arouse the interest of a new audience through the geography of the works. Every year, our foundation welcomes a little more than 20000 visitors. Most of them were trained with us because these works that come to us from Africa are beautiful, intelligent, and sensitive. This year we will present two works in the chapel of the Cordeliers: Rusty world and Chimera. In recent decades, Fally Sene Sow has observed and witnessed a rapid, disproportionate growth of his city, daughter of the madness of modern Man in its uncontrolled and uncontrollable desires. The Rusty World presents the shift of a world towards a chaotic megalopolis that has led to its loss. Chimera is a sculpture made of sun-burnt sheets representing two irreconcilable animals, a hyena 'Bouki' riding a vulture in full flight. Recurring in his work, the representation of the bestiary is not trivial for Oumar Ball, a Mauritanian artist. In the course of a discussion, he draws from his memories to talk to you about his childhood spent in the Fouta Toro region on the banks of the Senegal River, and evokes with tenderness and infinite modesty his grandmother who lulled him with Fulbe initiatory tales.

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