Nando Nkrumah: Polymorphosis
Nkrumah’s works range from classic paintings and screen prints to fabric patterns, graphics and 3D modelling. This includes an unusual jewellery collection with 3D-printed rings that combine traditional Adinkra symbols with modern design. His art is characterised by the freedom of the play of archaic and modern means, the inventiveness in the application of even new techniques that find surprising connections, an unusual expression of political engagement between cultures.
In addition to his jewellery collection, the exhibition will feature a series of photographs from the Chale Wote Street Art Festival, in which Nkrumah took part. The photo series documents, among other things, recent developments in Ghanaian art. Nkrumah will also be exhibiting pictures between painting and stencil art and, for the first time, digital painting based on 3D scanning.
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Nando Nkrumah, born in 1979 in Kumasi, Ghana and grew up in the Westerwald, lives as an artist and designer in Cologne. After studying design in Essen and Singapore, he studied media design at the KHM in Cologne. His works play with the visual and symbolic world of Ashanti culture in two dimensions or in 3D, combining the latest computer technology with stencil art, alienated and fragmented photos, texts, patterns and screen prints.
‘In my work, I reactivate traditional elements to create spaces for identity and creativity in a technologised world.’