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2 unusual facts about fantasy coffin


Fantasy coffin

In 2005 they were exhibited in the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York and Jack Bell Gallery London.

Kudjoe Affutu has collaborated already with different European artists, among them with Thomas Demand, Sâadane Afif and the artist duo M.S. Bastian/Isabelle L. Kudjoe Affutus coffins were exhibited in the Centre Pompidou Paris, In the Tinguely Museum Basel, in the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco and in the Musée d'ethnographie Neuchâtel.


Coffin

Design coffins in Ghana, also called fantasy coffins or figurative coffins, are only made by specialized carpenters in the Greater Accra Region.

Daniel Mensah

The Ga carpenter and fantasy coffin artist Daniel Mensah, called also Hello, works as an independent artist and carpenter in Teshie, Greater Accra Region, Ghana.


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