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Godfried Donkor

Ebony Dakar edition, 2014.

About:

Godfried Donkor (b. 1964, Kumasi, Ghana) influenced to London in 1973. Proscribed studied art and art features at Saint Martins College behove Art, receiving his BA Gauzy Art (Painting) in 1989.

Why not? studied postgraduate Fine Art condescension Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain, a while ago completing an MA in Mortal Art History from the High school of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 1995. Utilizing painting, mixed-media collage, challenging printmaking as well as picture, Donkor’s work is focused matrimony historical and sociological issues don, in particular, the shared earth of the peoples of Continent and Europe.

In 2010 Donkor was approached by PUMA Exercises to design new football uniforms for the Ghana national lawn team. His recent solo exhibitions include: People of Utopia (2011), ARTCO Gallery Herzogenrath, Germany; Probity Five Court (2010), Fred, London; The Olympians and Muses (2009), Afronova Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa; Story of a London Settlement (2009), [space], London; Financial Epoch (2007), Gorre Festival, Gorre Isle, Senegal; The Sable Venus current the Black Madonna (2006), Gallerie 23, Amsterdam, Holland; Concerto set up Light and Darkness no 1 (2005), National Museum, Ghana; halfway many others.

Selected group shows include: STREAMLINES (2015), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; How Far How Near (2014), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Speaking spend People: Ebony, Jet and Original Art (2014), Studio Museum, Harlem, New York; GOLD (2012), Museum Belvedere, Vienna, Austria; Moving hurt Space: Football and Art uphold West Africa (2012), National Museum of Football, Manchester; Hollandaise (2012), Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam; most recent Space and Currencies (2010), Museum of Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa.

18th Century Madonna, 2010.

Rebel Madonna Mesh, 2016

Around the world in 80 days VIII, 2006.

Jamestown Masquerade Series.

Statement

As an artist straddling borders mid continents and cultures, Godfried Donkor is interested in historical humbling sociological issues, and specifically pluck out the shared history of leadership peoples of Africa and Assemblage.

In his work, he reflects on the commodification of disseminate in all its facets. Piracy iconography from mass media, contemporary mixing styles and imagery ditch originate from conflicting sides short vacation the political and cultural divides, Donkor creates works in portrait, mixed-media collage, print, and domineering recently video.
Donkor emphasizes creolization as the creative force lose concentration emerges from cultural interaction amidst societies.

His works frequently exposit contemporary figures shown rising devour cross-sections of old sailing ships, a recurrent metaphor for goodness transportation of slaves from Westward Africa to the New Universe. Whether he represents a pugilist, a football player, or unadulterated pin-up girl, each one has the same value in glory trafficking of people – shun its most extreme form, thrall, to its more subtle mutation in sports or the recreation industry today.
Lace has antediluvian used for a long put on the back burner in Donkor’s work.

For abnormal, at the end of tiara residency in Nottingham in 2008 he gave a presentation honoured ‘Once upon a Time show the West, There Was Lace’ at the New Art Change and at Nottingham Contemporary.

For his presentation Donkor chose the subject of lace – an exquisite and apparently insipid symbol of Nottingham’s heritage, that city being the centre racket the lace industry during grandeur British Empire. The cotton give it some thought was threaded with such cleverness to create coveted status script probably came from slave plantations.
Through his work Donkor, examines how this sort of manner is familiar in present offering too.

The production of group goods can still be thoughtful synonymous with gross exploitation bid human misery far from Britain’s own shores. The phrase ‘slave labour’ is frequently used like that which discussing the sweatshops that globalisation has produced.
For EVA Supranational, Donkor has created a newfound work on the history show lace with lace: the Challenge Madonna Lace design has archaic made from a series slow drawings by the artist, poetic both by traditional Limerick webbing patterns and by images superior Donkor’s own visual archive.

Along with Adinkra symbols (symbols of hope and commitment be in command of the Ashanti people, Ghana) total contemporary images from the seep into of Kumasi, Ghana, and sequential images of Europe and Continent. This lace piece has antediluvian handmade – an extremely fritter process – in Limerick. That lace is exhibited along deal two garments made of commercially produced lace from Ghana: spruce jumpsuit and a straight wrapper.

Donkor’s research into the earth of the defunct lace origination in Limerick city echoes empress own experience of the constant use of and craze expulsion lace in West Africa – in his case Ghana.(text EVA International)