Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. www.galleriesnow.net › shows › john-akomfrah-3John Akomfrah: The Unintended Beauty of Disaster - Show ...

   www.galleriesnow.net › shows › john-akomfrah-3

   • Cached

   Apr 13, 2021 · Pictures and details of John Akomfrah: The Unintended Beauty of Disaster at Lisson Gallery, London, April 13 – July 10, 2021 – Contemporary art with installation views.

   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 

2. www.smithsonianmag.com › smithsonian-institutionArtist John Akomfrah Is Having a Moment | Smithsonian

   www.smithsonianmag.com › smithsonian-institution

   • Cached

   Oct 24, 2023 · Our daily immersion in a bombardment of images, in repeated patterns, at a fraught moment in contemporary history, makes the multichannel work of the artist John Akomfrah both familiar and...

   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 

3. ocula.com › art-galleries › lisson-galleryJohn Akomfrah, 'The Unintended Beauty of Disaster' at Lisson ...

   ocula.com › art-galleries › lisson-gallery

   • Cached

   Apr 13, 2021 · View images of the exhibition and selected artworks. John Akomfrah, 'The Unintended Beauty of Disaster' at Lisson Gallery, Lisson Street, London, United Kingdom on 13 Apr–31 Jul 2021.

4. www.lissongallery.com › exhibitions › john-akomfrahJohn Akomfrah: Five Murmurations | Exhibitions - Lisson Gallery

   www.lissongallery.com › exhibitions › john-akomfrah

   • Cached

   Sep 9, 2021 · Recent tragic incidences and victims of 2020, including Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and 13-year-old Adam Toledo from Chicago, find their moments in Akomfrah’s portal, echoed through imagery of tragedies in art history, such as Andrea Mantegne's Lamentation of Christ (1480).

5. www.frieze.com › disenchanting-world-john-akomfrahThe Disenchanting World of John Akomfrah | Frieze

   www.frieze.com › disenchanting-world-john-akomfrah

   • Cached

   Our conversation often broaches Akomfrah’s feelings of disenchantment following the UK’s decision to leave the European Union in 2016. This coexists with what he describes to me as a ‘deep, abiding love’ for the country he saw as a place of refuge when he moved to London as a child in 1966.

   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 

6. www.nytimes.com › 2021/09/01 › artsAn Artist Who Brings Order to Chaos - The New York Times

   www.nytimes.com › 2021/09/01 › arts

   Sep 1, 2021 · Once a Bad Boy, Now a Saint Maker: A nearly fatal car crash led the New Mexican artist Nicholas Herrera to the hospital, to jail and into art. Now, his colorful, thought-provoking art is on...

7. People also ask

   Who is John Akomfrah?

   • Photography by Jack Hems. Our daily immersion in a bombardment of images, in repeated patterns, at a fraught moment in contemporary history, makes the multichannel work of the artist John Akomfrah both familiar and especially compelling. And the Ghanaian-born, London-based filmmaker is getting noticed for it.

   Artist John Akomfrah Is Having a Moment | At the Smithsonian

   www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/artist-john-akomfrah-is-having-a-moment-180983116/

   See all results for this question

   Where did Akomfrah come from?

   • This layered approach defined Akomfrah’s earliest works, made with the Black Audio Film Collective, an artists’ atelier he formed in the early 1980s with six friends while at college in Portsmouth, England.

   John Akomfrah, an Artist Who Brings Order to Chaos - The New York Ti…

   www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/arts/design/john-akomfrah.html

   See all results for this question

   How many Murmurations does John Akomfrah want?

   • John Akomfrah said he wants his new work “five murmurations” to engage viewers in a conversation that is “animated for sure, occasionally convivial, occasionally heated.” Adama Jalloh for The New York Times

   John Akomfrah, an Artist Who Brings Order to Chaos - The New York Ti…

   www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/arts/design/john-akomfrah.html

   See all results for this question

   What did Akomfrah do?

   • Lina Gopaul, Akomfrah’s long-term collaborator and partner, who was with the collective from the start, said the group “wanted to explore these questions of identity, how race is formed and who fixes it.” As well as making films, the group organized screenings, distributed other artists’ work and put on symposiums.

   John Akomfrah, an Artist Who Brings Order to Chaos - The New York Ti…

   www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/arts/design/john-akomfrah.html

   See all results for this question

   What is Akomfrah doing in 2017?

   • In 2017, Akomfrah presented Purple (2017), which addresses climate change, human communities and wilderness; and Precarity (2017), following the life of forgotten New Orleans jazz trumpeter Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden.

   John Akomfrah | Artists | Lisson Gallery

   www.lissongallery.com/artists/john-akomfrah

   See all results for this question

   Is it a coincidence that Akomfrah was asked to do something?

   • “Nor is it a coincidence that when I was asked to do something I was like, ‘Yes!’” It was in 1982 that Akomfrah, who had moved to the United Kingdom with his family as a child, co-founded the Black Audio Film Collective. One of the collective’s significant early works was the single-channel piece Handsworth Songs, which Akomfrah directed.

   Artist John Akomfrah Is Having a Moment | At the Smithsonian

   www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/artist-john-akomfrah-is-having-a-moment-180983116/

   See all results for this question

8. www.lissongallery.com › artists › john-akomfrahJohn Akomfrah | Artists | Lisson Gallery

   www.lissongallery.com › artists › john-akomfrah

   • Cached

   John Akomfrah is a hugely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works are characterised by their investigations into memory, post-colonialism, temporality and aesthetics and often explore the experiences of migrant diasporas globally.