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Ibrahim Mahama : vanishing points, 2014-2020 / Herausgeber, Torsten Reiter, Alexander Bär ; Autoren, Osborn Adomako Akuoko [and four others].

LIBRA N7399.G53 A4 2021
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Adomako Akuoko, Osborn, author.
Contributor:
Reiter, Torsten, editor.
Bar, Alexander, editor.
Mahama, Ibrahim, 1987- artist.
REITER (Leipzig, Germany), host institution.
Series:
Kerber art.
Language:
English
German
Subjects (All):
Mahama, Ibrahim, 1987---Exhibitions.
Mahama, Ibrahim.
Artists--Kenya--Exhibitions.
Artists.
Art, Modern--21st century--Exhibitions.
Art, Modern.
Installations (Art)--Germany--Leipzig--Exhibitions.
Installations (Art).
Junk sculpture--Exhibitions.
Junk sculpture.
Wheelbarrows--In art.
Wheelbarrows.
Mahama, Ibrahim, 1987-.
Genre:
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:
88 pages : color illustrations ; 30 x 25 cm.
Other Title:
Vanishing points 2014-2020
Place of Publication:
Bielefeld : Kerber, [2021]
Language Note:
Parallel texts in German and English.
Summary:
Der ghanaische Künstler Ibrahim Mahama (*1987) realisiert mit der Ausstellung Vanishing Points 2014 - 2020 bei REITER sein erstes Soloprojekt in einer deutschen Galerie. Für seine raumgreifende ortsspezifische Installation arrangiert der Künstler hundert alte Schubkarren, die er von Arbeiter*innen in Ghana eingesammelt und im Austausch gegen neue Modelle erhalten hat. Die rostigen, abgenutzten Karren tragen deutliche Spuren täglicher schwerer Arbeit und können als deren Symbole verstanden werden. Sie stehen für den Aufbau, der sich auch architektonisch in der Geschichte des Heimatlandes des Künstlers manifestiert. Gleichzeitig ist die Arbeit auch im Zusammenhang seines 2020 in Tamale (Ghana) fertiggestellten Projektes Parliament of Ghosts zu sehen. Dieses bezeichnet ein Forum für diskursiven Austausch und trägt die Idee der sozialen Skulptur weiter. Beide Projekte, in Tamale und Leipzig, werden im Buch dokumentiert.
With the exhibition Vanishing Points 2014-2020 at REITER, the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama (1987) has his first solo show in a German gallery. For his large, site-specific installation, the artist has arranged a hundred old wheelbarrows, which he collected from workers in Ghana, giving them new ones in return. The rusty, worn wheelbarrows bear the obvious marks of daily hard labour and can be understood as a symbol of that. They also represent the construction that manifests in architecture throughout the history of the artists homeland. At the same time the work can also be regarded in the context of his project Parliament of Ghosts, which was on display in Tamale, Ghana, in 2020. It is a forum for debate that also continues with the idea of social sculpture. Both projects in Tamale and Leipzig are documented in the book.
Contents:
Editorial
Entry points
Verfall ist kein Ziel an sich
"Samen einer Zukunftsfrucht, die es noch nicht gibt"
Die Krise als Form
Die vergoldeten Garben.
Notes:
Published to accompany the exhibition held at REITER, Leipzig, Germany, 2021.
Title from cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Reiter, Leipzig, 2021.
ISBN:
9783735607782
3735607780
OCLC:
1268136986

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