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Joseph

Joseph "Paa Joe" Tetteh Ashong

Water Series 1, 2004
Mixed media and wood
1 piece: 283 x 91 cm
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Paa Joe's work has been bought by US presidents and appears in museum collections all over the world - and yet most of his creations are buried six feet underground....
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Paa Joe's work has been bought by US presidents and appears in museum collections all over the world - and yet most of his creations are buried six feet underground. He is Ghana's most prolific coffin artist after five decades of producing some of the worlds most extravagant designs. "People celebrate death in Ghana. At a funeral, we have a passion for the person leaving us - there are a lot of people and a lot of noise. The coffins are celebratory, it reminds the public that life continues after death, that when someone dies they will go on in the afterlife, so it is important that they go out in style."
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Provenance

ANO Institute of Contemporary Arts, Ghana 2017

Exhibitions

Gallery Poggiali | SOJOURN SUMMITS | March 2022 - May 2022.

Publications

Jasmin Hernandez | "Miguel Angel Payano Jr, Sojourn Summits" | Galleria Poggiali .
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