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Birthday boy @steloolive throwing down some cool moves to a Daddy Lumba classic at @thestudioaccra. Happy Birthday boss! Cheers to more statements sané! 🎥: Nana Osei - 2017 . . #thestudioaccra #Accra #Ghana #Africa #art #artist #dance #daddylumba #steloolive #arttalk #exhibition #everydayafrica #accrawedey (at Forico mall Osu)
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Hand painted movie posters became popular in Ghana in the early 80's. It was during the time of the rise of the cinema culture in Ghana. Artists who were mostly painting on walls for automobile companies, bars, pubs, hospitals and schools on commission basis started painting exaggerated/ hyper-realistic images on flour sacks. These paintings were images from films that were showing in these cinemas. Some of these images were suggested by the owners of the cinemas, and the artists sometimes painted what they imagined scenes in the film to look like. A process painter @dajasperart has themed "imagination painting." The cinema culture grew and became popular, and the movie posters are believed to part of the factors that contributed to the rise. As time went by the cinema hype began to die down, but the painters were still painting the movie posters. Art dealers, galleries and collectors around the world started collecting these paintings. The paintings were shown in galleries and museums around the world. According to Mr. Frimpong, a lecturer at @ashesi university in Ghana says although the paintings became popular, people (collectors, art dealers & galleries) outside of Ghana didn't know the physical appearance of the artists behind these paintings. They were always exhibited in the absence of the artists. It is in view of this that @snydr and @thestudioaccra put up an exhibition & art Talk for @dajasperart last Saturday. Jasper is one of the early painters of these movie posters, and has lived through the evolution of this art form. Mr. Frimpong who's research interest is in Ghanaian pop culture said the presence of the artist at the exhibition is "historical" because it is the first time an artist who paints movie posters is at an exhibition of his works. . . 📷: Nana Osei - 2017 . . #thestudioaccra #Accra #Ghana #Africa #art #jasper #jasperart #movies #movieposter #painting #imaginationpainting #galleries #artdealers #collectors #research #exhibition #arttalk #artnewsafrica #streetstyle #streetphotography #everydayafrica #accrawedey (at Forico mall Osu)
Courtesy: @blaxtarlines ——— Celebrating Selasi Awusi Sosu @selasosu2013 for her participation in the first Ghana Pavillion at the 58th Venice Biennial. @thestudioaccra #alniinod #blaxtarlines #thestudioaccra #arttalk #art #ghanainvenice #iubizzle https://www.instagram.com/p/ByIGjN0nGQL/?igshid=lqxcxse44a05
Art Talk with Tracy Thompson
Date: October 26, 2017
Venue: @thestudioaccra
Time: 6:30pm
Free!!!
Artist Bio:
Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson is a twenty-three-year-old Ghanaian artist whose practice revolves around an interest in material and industrial processes (seen in her recent works with synthetic plastics); As well as Nature which also inspires her— the aspects of complexity, the uncontrolled, and the mathematical ingenuity of nature which embodies its enigmatic beauty.
Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) where she obtained first class honours in Fine Art (Painting) from the Department of Painting and Sculpture in Kumasi.
KNUST plays a key role in her practice as the department of Painting and Sculpture in KNUST is undergoing reformation in its curricular and playing such an epochal role in revolutionizing the art scene in Ghana which was in a state of oblivion to the contemporary art world. Not to mention the radical strives or guerrilla tactics of artistic emancipation heralded by Dr. karî’kạchä seid’ou which has in recent times propelled the art scene in Ghana to gain prominence internationally through the large scale end of year exhibitions that have carried an intellectual vision and scope to expose Ghanaian artists to engage politically and socially to the global discourses and interventions of contemporary art.
Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson has participated in two of these unprecedented paradigm-shifting large-scale exhibitions organised by blaxTARLINES (of the Department of Painting and Sculpture). Namely Cornfields in Accra (2016) and Orderly Disorderly (2017). Opportuned by the cross-generational features of the exhibition, she exhibited alongside prominent contemporary artists like Ibrahim Mahama, as well as artists of the 60’s and 70’s like Prof. Ablade Glover, Kofi Dawson and many others.
Artist Statement:
My current works stems from an interest in synthetic materials and Nature — the paradox and synthesis between inorganic and organic material. My works come in the form of plastics — Polystyrene (Styrofoam) — which at times come with implants of Polyvinyl Chloride sheets, Polypropylene material, as well as particles of organic matter.
Like the Sankɔfa ideology, I condition the Styrofoam to immerse itself back to its own source, petroleum, which is mixed with oil paint. Out of this semi-dissolution process of form and mass, the white-coloured industrial geometric form of Styrofoam is transmuted into coloured amorphous substance.
Air bubbles also form in the substance which is liberated (partial deflation) from its former concealed state due to its original industrial process (inflated polymer). The latent air therefore becomes macroscopically visible through this artistic intervention of material experimentation. These air-bubbles add to the organic aesthetic of the plastic work as it imitates cell-like structures of organisms.
The uber-contraction of mass and matter from the semi-dissolution process used, is crucial to the politics of scale of the art work- ‘Since a million blocks of Styrofoam could be reduced to a small-scale. This is metaphorical and paradoxical (in relation to time) to the millions of tons of decomposed organic fossils which have been largely compressed over a long period .
The transmutation of these ubiquitous Styrofoam material breaks the modernist aesthetic of the original state of the industrial material; its pristine opaque quality and geometric form, which I manipulate to become transparent, coloured and amorphous.
In taking advantage of the multi-transformational ability of the plastic, I also create varied textures in my plastic works by also exploring drawing and carving in an unconventional way by using water (in contrast to the oil nature of molten plastic). The thermo-elastic ability of the material also allows me to explore the complexity of dynamic formation of the work in space synonymous to that of living organism that changes over time.
The viscoelastic property also allows me to have works that imitate frozen motion of liquids which I have explored in simulating geographical forms (water droplets, icicles, stalagmites and so on). Therefore, the transformation (alchemist) process of a ubiquitous material like Styrofoam to become unrecognizable becomes an interest of which I am exploring.
Kolomentality / Photo Exhibition + ArtTalk
by Henry Obimpeh
@thestudioaccra
Thursday October 5, 2017
7:30 PM sharp
Free!!!
Ankara also known as “African prints” or “mummy cloth”, although a legacy of colonialism over time has become a symbol of Africa (particularly the west and central parts) scholars can’t really point of place who or how the colourful fabric found it’s way into Africa. however in the case of Ghana, Ghanaian soldiers who served in the Royal Dutch East-Indian Army during the first world war in some colonies in present day Indonesia are credited for first bringing them to Ghana.
Wax print like most other fabrics in Ghana have names, attached to these names are associated stories and sayings. Ghana like most parts of Africa relies heavily on oral history. Our fathers before us left records of our history and culture in the form of names, sayings, proverbs, and stories.
Kolomentality series is inspired by the attributes of Ankara fabrics. Some of the works are metaphorical for things that are not African in origin but has been espoused by us (voluntary or imposed).Whilst others cover Socio-cultural and political topics looking at the retrospective, contemporary and future.
Artist Bio:
Henry Elvis Obimpeh is a visual artist who uses mixed media; mostly photography and fabric to create his art. He holds an MA in Film and Photography from the University of Derby, Derbyshire, UK and a BA in Visual Communication from the African University College of Communications (AUCC), Ghana.
For the past six years Henry has worked extensively with fabric. Some of Henry’s major projects are “KENTE: The Grandeur of our Heritage” (photo-book) and “Stereotypes: A closer look at the Bandana” a social project (photo-book). He has also had a photo exhibition in Derby for his ‘Blind Vision’ series.
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Art Talk | @thestudioaccra Thursday November 24, 2016 7.30 PM Free!!! Body Intimate{d} Journeying onward from her Chale Wote 2016 performance, Y K O Tetteh follows her curiosity to a new set of questions about the intersection between performativity, the (black) (female) body, and our intimate relationship with ourselves. In this piece she brings participants into the performance of body intimacy stories, and asks them to join her in her performance-research. Y K O Tetteh Yvette Y K O Tetteh (b. 1992) is a British-born Ghanaian artist and aspiring farmer. She holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology, and French, from Stanford University (CA, USA.) Her work is centred on the black body, and the intersection of intimacy, reserve, and performativity. Her astrological signs are: Cancer Sun, Aries Moon, and Gemini in Ascendant. This sums her up perfectly. Yvette is based in Accra, Ghana.
We caught up with indie musician Eli and The Walking Man Band during rehearsal for their presentation on Friday nite October 28, 2016 at Alliance Française, Accra. A band of musicians on similar paths, they promise to take you on a thought journey.
Friday nite blues in Accra. Don’t miss this!!! 7.30 PM sharp.
Photos: Francis Kokoroko / @thestudioaccra 2016
ACROPOLIS
A live presentation of the latest body of work by Yaw P x Temple.
Saturday October 22, 2016
@thestudioaccra | Osu - Accra
7.30pm sharp!
Don’t miss! Free!!!
Based on their Adisco days, Yaw P and Temple have come together to release their recent EP the Acropolis; addressing the need for fresh homegrown sound in the Ghanaian music landscape. It combines Yaw P’s unorthodox sound productions married to Temple’s raw yet witty word play.
Come join the two artists as they discuss their influences and thought process that led to their recent project.
