Ataa Oko and his third wife, with a coffin in the form of a battleship, about 1960. Ataa Oko Addo (c. 1919 – 9 December 2012) [1] was a Ghanaian builder of figurative palanquins and figurative coffins, and at over 80 years of age he became a painter of Art Brut.

Ataa Oko et les esprits. Lausanne/Le Tourne: Parti de l’Art Brut/Lokomotiv Films, 2009, 30 min.

Ataa Oko and his third wife with a battleship coffin, c. 1960. Ataa Oko was born in the coastal town of La, Ghana. From 1936 to 1939 he was trained as a carpenter in Accra. Until 2002, he made coffins only for Ghanaian customers and thus remained unknown in Western art circles.

Mar 12, 2021 · Ataa Oko (c. 1919, La, Ghana – December 9, 2012, Accra) was a builder of figurative palanquins and fantasy coffin and over 80 years old he even became a painter of Art Brut. He was for almost all his life a fisherman until at the age of eighty-three he suddenly took up drawing. Since that date he has created over 2500 pictures.

Ataa Oko began his graphic work at of eighty-three years old, after meeting in 2002 with the ethnologist Regula Tschumi. She was then conducting research on funerary sculptures. She asked him to draw from memory its personalized figurative coffins he built while he was carpenter: one in the shape of a fish for a fisherman, another representing ...

Ataa Oko Addo (né vers 1919 dans la ville côtière de La (Grand Accra), mort le 9 décembre 2012 à Accra) était un artiste indépendant ghanéen, notamment créateur de cercueils personnalisés et un artiste peintre d'Art Brut.

Nov 5, 2021 · Atta Oko Addo of La had a long and illustrious working life as a fisherman, carpenter, sculptor and graphic artist. Around 1945, he made his first figurative coffins, a genre which has since become famous on the international art circuit; other pioneer Ghanaian exemplars of the canon are Paa Joe and the late Kane Kwei.

Ataa Oko began producing figurative coffins as early as 1945. Since these sorts of works were still very unusual in the 1950s, he quickly rose to fame throughout the entire coastal region of Ghana. Today, Ataa Oko is considered a pioneer of Ghanaian coffin art.

Ataa Oko As in other Ghanaian cosmologies and philosophies, the lands of the spirits, or of the unseen, are as important as those of the seen. Water, libation, the lagoons, rivers and seas, are often the great carrier or passage between these realms, housing as they do the spirits of these elements, the ignorance of whose importance can cause ...

Ataa Oko. A glimpse inside the amazing world of Ghanaian funerals and how the carpenter Ataa Oko became an artist