Paa Joe
| Paa Joe | |
|---|---|
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| Ghana, 1947 (run 77/78) | |
| O ya Tiŋgbaŋ | Ghana |
| Education | |
| Bala yɛlibu, sabbu bee buɣisibu | Silmiinsili |
| Tuma | |
| Tuma | artist (en)  ni sculptor (en) |
Paa Joe (né Joseph Tetteh-Ashong; bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1947) o nyɛla ŋun nyɛ Ghanaian sculptor, ni figurative palanquin n tipahi kun daadaka nim kaapinta. Joe nyɛla bɛ ni mi so ka o nyɛ ŋun kpaŋdi o maŋ pam di kana ban maani kum daadaka nim ni Ghana tingbanni bee abebuu adekai (“proverb boxes”) nucheeni tuun tumdi saha ŋɔ.[1][2][3] O nyɛla ŋun na min be duniya zaa nucheeni tuma yaɣili ni bin din gbaagi yuuni 1989, ka nyɛ ŋun be major exhibition nim ni tinsi kamani Europe, Japan, n ti pahi USA nim zaa puuni. O kun daadaka nim maa shɛŋa nyɛla din be yaɣa nim puuni kamani British Museum n be London, ni Brooklyn Museum be New York, ni Royal Ontario Museum in Canada, ni Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, ni National Museum of Ethnology be Osaka n ti pahi din pahipahi.[4][5][6][7]
Solo mini group exhibitions
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- Yuuni 2020 "Paa Joe: Gates of No Return", High Museum of Art, Atlanta[3]
- Yuuni 2017 Gallery 1957 "One does not take it anywhere."[7]
- Yuuni 2017 Jack Shainman Gallery "The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness."[8]
- Yuuni 2017 Fondation Cartier Paris[9]
- Yuuni 2012 Brooklyn Museum[4]
- Yuuni 2012 Southbank, UK[10]
- Yuuni 2011 Salon 94 New York[11]
- Yuuni 2011 Jack Bell Gallery, UK[12]
- Yuuni 2011 V&A museum UK
- Yuuni 2010–11 "Living and Dying Gallery" British Museum London
- Yuuni 2007–2008 Six Feet Under, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
- Yuuni 2006 Melbourne Festival[13]
- Yuuni 2006 Six Feet Under, Kunstmuseum Bern[14]
- Yuuni 2005 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City[15]
- Yuuni 2003 Schokolade, die süsse Verführung, Museum für Völkerkunde Basel
- Yuuni 2002 Autolust, Stapferhaus Lenzburg, Switzerland
- Yuuni 1989 Les Magiciens de la terre, Centre Pompidou, Paris[7]
Kundivihira
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- ↑ Jennings, Lewis (2018-12-01). "Rest in peace and art: Ghanaians are putting the fun into funerals by getting buried in artsy coffins shaped like animals and even Coke bottles" (in en). Index on Censorship 47 (4): 34–35. DOI:10.1177/0306422018819317. ISSN 0306-4220.
- ↑ Otto, Kristin (2019-03-29). "Shapes of the Ancestors: Bodies, Animals, Art, and Ghanaian Fantasy Coffins" (in en). Museum Anthropology Review 13 (1–2): 47–58. DOI:10.14434/mar.v13i1.26580. ISSN 1938-5145.
- 1 2 Paa Joe: Gates of No Return (en-US).
- 1 2 Coffin in the Form of a Nike Sneaker.
- ↑ coffin (en).
- ↑ Jansen, Charlotte (2016-11-24). How Ghana's top fantasy coffin artist has put the fun in funeral (en).
- 1 2 3 Carrigan, Margaret (21 November 2017). "Paa Joe's Fantasy Coffins Are Now Recognized as Contemporary Art in Ghana". The New York Observer.
- ↑ The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness « Exhibitions « Jack Shainman Gallery (en).
- ↑ Malick Sidibé, Mali Twist (en).
- ↑ Boxed: Fabulous Coffins from UK and Ghana | in London (en).
- ↑ 'Material' at Salon 94: An Exhibit of Fashion Designer Duro Olowu's Favorite Things (en-US) (2012-02-21).
- ↑ Paa Joe's Elaborate Hand-Carved Ghanaian Coffins (2010-12-06).
- ↑ Paa Joes Fantastic Coffins.
- ↑ Coffins for the Art Museum Berne (en-GB) (2017-06-08).
- ↑ From The Cabinet « Exhibitions « Jack Shainman Gallery (en).
Further reading
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- 2014 Regula Tschumi: Concealed Art. The figurative palanquins and coffins of Ghana. Edition Till Schaap, Bern. ISBN 978-3-03828-099-6.
- 2014 Regula Tschumi: The buried treasures of the Ga: Coffin art in Ghana. Edition Till Schaap, Bern. ISBN 978-3-03828-016-3. A revised and updated second edition of Benteli 2008.
- 2013 Regula Tschumi: The Figurative Palanquins of the Ga. History and Significance, in: African Arts, vol. 46, 4, p. 60-73.
- 2015 Paa Joe and the Lion, a film by Ben Wigley (director) and Anna Griffin (producer), Notthingham, GB.
- 2006. Regula Tschumi: Last Respect, First Honoured. Ghanaian Burial Rituals and Figural Coffins". In: Kunstmuseum Bern (Hg.): Six Feet Under. Exhibition Catalogue. Kerber, Bielefeld & Leipzig, p. 114-125.
- 2004. Regula Tschumi: A Report on Paa Joe and the Proverbial Coffins of Teshie and Nungua, Ghana. In: Africa e Mediterraneo, no 47-48, p. 44-47.
- Thierry Secretan: Going into darkness, Hazan 1995.
External links
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- PAA JOE in: Eine fantastische Himmelsreise - Särge aus Ghana
- Paa Joe: The Ghanan coffin maker, Artikel von Achola Rosario in The Independent (Uganda) vom 20. Januar 2012[dead link]