Atta Kwami / edited by Melissa Blanchflower.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kwami, Atta, 1956-2021, artist, interviewee.

Contributor:

Blanchflower, Melissa, editor, interviewer.

Obrist, Hans Ulrich, interviewer.

Deliss, Clémentine, contributor.

Milroy, Lisa, 1959- contributor.

Moloi, Nkgopoleng, contributor.

Clarkson, Pamela, interviewee.

Dogbe, Ama, contributor.

Picton, John, contributor.

Serpentine Gallery, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kwami, Atta, 1956-2021--Exhibitions.

Kwami, Atta.

Kwami, Atta, 1956-2021--Interviews.

Physical Description:

144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Atta Kwami, Dzidzc kple amenuveve (Joy and grace).

Place of Publication:

London : Serpentine ; Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, [2025]

Summary:

In partnership with the Maria Lassnig Foundation, Serpentine presents a public art mural by the late painter, printmaker, independent art historian, and curator Atta Kwami (1956-2021) ... The commission originates from a painting on canvas that Kwami reworked in his studio in 2021, shortly before his death - making this the final, landmark public work of his pioneering career. Designed in dialogue with the North Gallery Garden, the mural Dzidzɔ kple amenuveve (Joy and Grace), 2021-22, embodies the artist's vibrant palette and fluid abstract painting style. Its title is in Ewe, a West African language spoken by Kwami, and its composition characteristically plays with the colour and form improvisations distinctive to Ghanaian architecture and strip-woven textiles found across the African continent, especially kente cloth from the Ewe and Asante people of Ghana. The mural is painted on wood - the surface Kwami used for outdoor constructions - by artist Pamela Clarkson, Kwami's widow who shared a studio with him for over 30 years, and designer Andy Philpott, his friend and collaborator on constructions in Amsterdam, Folkestone and Loughborough. -- https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/atta-kwami-maria-lassnig-prize-mural/

Contents:

Preface / Hans Ulrich Obrist and Bettina Korek

Atta Kwami and Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation

Painted kiosks and archways. Sonic grids / Cleméntine Deliss

Two paintings / Lisa Milroy

Paintings. Decades in the life of colour: Atta Kwami and the enduring power of abstraction / Nkgopoleng Moloi

House on a hill / Cleméntine Deliss

Prints. On printmaking / Pamela Clarkson and Melissa Blanchflower

Home-studios / Ama Dogbe

In memoriam / John Picton

Mural.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the Maria Lassnig Prize 2021 and the public art commission "Atta Kwami : Dzidzc kple amenuveve (Joy and Grace)," 2021-2022, at Serpentine North Garden, London, September 6, 2022-September 30, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

On the occasion of the Maria Lassnig Prize 2021 and the public art commission "Atta Kwami : Dzidzc kple amenuveve" at Serpentine North Garden, London, September 6, 2022 - September 30, 2024.

ISBN:

9781908617774

1908617772

OCLC:

1522938908