Research Catalog

Title

Ghana freedom : Ghana Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia / editor, Nana Oforiatta Ayim ; artists, Felicia Abban, John Akomfrah, El Anatsui, Ibrahim Mahama, Selasi Awusi Sosu, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

Publication

• London : König Books, [2019]
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Abban, Felicia,
• Abban, Felicia.
• Akomfrah, John,
• Anatsui, El, 1944-
• Biennale di Venezia (58th : 2019 : Venice, Italy). host institution.
• Ghana Pavilion, host institution.
• Mahama, Ibrahim, 1987-
• Oforiatta-Ayim, Nana,
• Sosu, Selasi Awusi,
• Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, 1977-

Description

143 pages : illustrations (some colour); 25 cm

Summary

"Titled Ghana Freedom, after the song composed by E.T. Mensah on the eve of the birth of the new nation in 1957, the pavilion curated by Nana Oforiatta Ayim examines the legacies and trajectories of that freedom by six artists, across three generations, rooted both in Ghana and its Diasporas: through archives of objects in large-scale installations by El Anatsui and Ibrahim Mahama; representation and portraiture, both in the studio work of Ghana's first known female photographer Felicia Abban and imagined by painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye; the relativities of loss and restitution in a three- channel film by John Akomfrah; and, lastly, in a film sculpture by Selasi Awusi Sosu. The elliptically shaped design of the pavilion by Sir David Adjaye explores the intersection of ideas linking the works."--Exhibition website.

Subjects

• Exhibition catalogs
• 20.30 history of art: general
• Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, 1977- > Exhibitions
• Sosu, Selasi Awusi > Exhibitions
• Mahama, Ibrahim, 1987- > Exhibitions
• Anatsui, El, 1944- > Exhibitions
• Akomfrah, John > Exhibitions
• Abban, Felicia > Exhibitions
• Art, Ghanaian > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Ghana Pavilion, 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 11 May-24 November 2019.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo -- Introduction / Barbara Oteng Gyasi -- Photo essay / Deo Gratias Photo Studio -- Essays. Ghana freedom / Nana Oforiatta Ayim -- Becoming Ghana / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Who's afraid of a national pavilion? / Taiye Selasi -- About the artists. Felicia Abban / Adjoa Armah -- John Akomfrah / Hakeem Adam -- El Anatsui / Mae-ling Lokko -- Ibrahim Mahama / Kuukuwa O. Manful -- Selasi Awusi Sosu / Mavis Tetteh-Ocloo -- Lynette Yiadom-Boakye / Larry Ossei-Mensah -- Conversation / Sir David Adjaye and Okwui Enwezor -- About the architecture / Adjaye Associates.

ISBN

• 9783960985594
• 3960985592

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries