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Jan 14, 2017 · 14 January 2017 – 22 May 2017. John Akomfrah: The Last Angel of History. January 14 to May 22, 2017. John Akomfrah is a ground-breaking British artist and filmmaker of Ghanaian descent who brings to the fore questions of race and post-colonial identity in his installations and films.
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Jan 26, 2017 · John Akomfrah has been announced as the winner of the Artes Mundi 7 award, which comes with a £40,000 ($50,000) cash prize. The British artist was pronounced winner of the prestigious biennial award during a ceremony held on January 26 at the National Museum Cardiff.
Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA (born 4 May 1957 [1]) is a Ghanaian-born British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films". [2]
Akomfrah presented his largest film installation to date, Purple, in 2017 at the Barbican in London, co-commissioned by Bildmuseet Umeå, Sweden, TBA21—Academy, The Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon and Garage Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow.
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.
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Akomfrah began this year with twin honours: a knighthood and selection as the UK’s representative artist at the next Venice Biennale. Both plaudits underscored his achievements in moving image over the last four decades, since cofounding the Black Audio Film Collective in 1982 and directing the landmark Handsworth Songs (1986), a searing ...
