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Paa Joe with a sandal coffin in collaboration with Regula Tschumi for the Kunstmuseum Berne 2006. Paa Joe was born in 1947 at Akwapim in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Joe began his career with a twelve-year apprenticeship as a coffin artist in the workshop of Kane Kwei (1924–1992) in Teshie. [8]
Figurative palanquin; drawing by Ataa Oko from Ghana. Among Christians, the use of custom coffins is relatively recent and began in the Greater Accra Region around 1950. They were formerly used only by Ga chiefs and priests, but since around 1960, figurative coffins have become an integral part of the local funeral culture. [4]
The Christians and common Ga began to use figurative coffins around 1950 to 1960. As they were not allowed to use family symbols, which were still reserved for their traditional chiefs, carpenters such as Ataa Oko (1919–2012), Kane Kwei (1925–1992) and others began to produce figurative coffins avoiding the traditional totem symbols. They ...
While some figurative coffins were acquired in the 1970s by American gallery owners (Vivian Burns in 1973 and Ernie Wolfe, both from Los Angeles), it is since 1989 that these objects achieved international recognition as works of art, through their successive display in exhibitions: Magiciens de la terre (1989, Musée National d'Art Moderne ...
A display of coffins in the office of a funeral director in Poland A casket showroom in Billings, Montana, depicting split lid coffins. A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, for either burial or cremation. Coffins are sometimes referred to as caskets, particularly in American English.
Kudjoe Affutu (born 1985) is a Ghanaian artist and figurative coffin and palanquin builder. He was born and still lives in Awutu Bawyiase , Central Region , Ghana. Affutu has made a name for himself in Europe by participating in various art projects and exhibitions.
Twenty-six years ago, the world looked on as Prince William and Prince Harry said goodbye to their mom. Read on for photos of the day Diana, Princess of Wales was laid to rest.
In 2006 she published a standard work on the figurative coffins of the Ga people. [2] In this book she traces the origins of these coffins in the art and religion of the Ga, and questions the history of their evolution. In the course of this research Regula Tschumi discovered the coffin-artist and art brut painter Ataa Oko, born 1919, from La ...