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This trailer introduces “The Black Stars of Ghana – Art District”, a series of video interviews and talks which explore the depth, vibrancy, beauty, vision and diversity of contemporary art from Ghana through conversations with locally prominent and recognized visual artists. These film interviews provide a platform for the artists who are widely considered as shaping the contemporary art scene of modern Ghana to speak out about their creative background, about their life in general, their art and their experiences with the art scene at home and abroad. Instead of defining contemporary African art from a Western perspective, the contemporary art scene in Ghana talks for itself.
Contemporary art in Ghana rests upon a rich history of artistic tradition reaching back hundreds of years into the past. The classical art tradition of the Ghanaian historic kingdoms of the Ashanti, the Ewe and other tribes still influences modern artistic expression without preventing today’s artists to explore both established and uniquely personal styles of contemporary art production. Making use of a rich ancestral heritage on the one hand, but creating art in an independent personal style on the other hand, the representatives of present-day Ghanaian art have established a regional reputation beyond their home country and are about to move the contemporary arts scene in Ghana out of the shadows of the global art market.
In different videos this film project explores the life and works of Prof. Ablade Glover, Kofi Setordji, Wiz Kudowor, Marigold Akufo-Addo, Larry Otoo, Gabriel Eklou, Samuel Kane Kwei, Kwadwo Ani, Kobina Nyarko, Ndugu, Alfred Mensah and others …
Watch the TEASER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9FVzyp3M84
1st Episode: WIZ KUDOWOR http://bit.ly/182CO6i
2nd Episode: ABLADE GLOVER http://bit.ly/16OURhr
Read about the project on “This Is Africa”: http://bit.ly/16ejiHb
Editing: David Picard
Camera: Enes Hakan Tokyay
Music: Ayo Nelson-Homiah — “Express”
A film by Safia Dickersbach
FACEBOOK: http://on.fb.me/19WevwC
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