09 May 2008
Corsican artist, Mariko, is exhibiting her latest work in La Galerie du Levant in Porto Vecchio until this autumn.
Florence Combescure, alias Mariko, has always been inspired by Africa. It is in Kenya, then in Ivory Coast at the age of 14 that she became aware of her interest in art, displaying her work in the newly restored Grand Palais in Paris in 2006.
In Porto Vecchio, she exhibits eleven pieces carved in sandstone, and for the first time she incorporates some mechanical parts made of metal in her sculptures.
Mariko cuts and incorporates metal to the sandstone sculpture. Her most recent work lies in a balanced contrast between stone and iron, with sculptures strongly inspired by the primitive arts.
"I always wanted to solder. And then give life to these mechanical parts that were about to be scrapped," she told Club Corsica.
