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04/12/2024

Untitled Art Fair is officially open to the public and gallery 1957 is proud to present at Booth A16 the amazing works by Kwaku Yaro ✨

Yaro is from Labadi, a coastal fishing community in Accra. His art draws inspiration from Ghana’s Atlantic coastline, turning materials into compelling pieces that reflect his connection to the environment and his unique perspective.

Each work is an innovative and deeply personal approach to upcycling, celebrating Ghanian culture and the beautiful people who call it home.

Find us at Booth A16 from 4th - 8th December at Untitled Art Fair Miami.

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30/11/2024

The video works by Phoebe Boswell, Lyle Ashton Harris, and Julianknxx in the ’Keeping Time’ group exhibition weave together a lattice of conceptual and aesthetic considerations about the experience of time.

“To ‘keep time’ in music is to synchronise the work of the individual to the ensemble, all of the players in a group tied together to the same rhythm, the same tempo, the same sense of attunement. The act of keeping time in the context of this exhibition is imagined as a collective act of reaching beyond Western binaries of progress and underdevelopment.”

- Extract from a curatorial text by Ekow Eshun

Don’t miss your chance to experince poetry in motion through the works of 25 artists in ‘Keeping Time’, on view until the 11th of January on the Third Floor, Galleria Mall, Kempinski Hotel Accra.

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29/11/2024

In Studio with Rebekka Macht:

During her time In-Residence at Gallery 1957, Macht has been exploring notions of metamorphosis, unearthing the cultural weight of motherhood and masculinity and how these concepts manifest for her both personally and aesthetically. Expanding on idealised and iconographic images of Madonna and Child, she deconstructs archetypes to reflect on themes of protection, vulnerability and growth.

Macht’s studio is bountiful with shades of blue oil paint which she applies to canvas in a gradient, sculptural manner while also experimenting with clay and watercolours in her ongoing practice. Her paintings evolve from photographs and charcoal drawings on paper to convey both psychological and material transformations.

We look forward to Macht’s solo exhibition in 2025 🩵

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28/11/2024

December is around the corner, where all roads lead to the shores of Miami 🌊 For the 2024 edition of Untitled Art Miami, Gallery 1957 will present a solo booth of new works by visual artist Kwaku Yaro in Booth A16.

Born and raised in Labadi, a coastal fishing community in Accra, Yaro’s practice emerges from Ghana’s Atlantic Ocean’s edge to transform materials into a thought-provoking dialogue between his audience, the environment and his singular perspective. Harnessing the physical and symbolic qualities of matter to give shape and meaning to his works, Yaro interweaves ingenuity and environmental consciousness to evoke both a sense of place and the very souls of his subjects.

Find us at Booth A16 from 4th - 8th December at Untitled Art Miami showcasing vibrant artworks by Kwaku Yaro.
 VIP Preview:
Tuesday 3rd December
10am–7pm

Public Opening Hours:
Wednesday 4th December - Saturday 7th December
11am–7pm

Sunday 8th December
11am–5pm

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25/11/2024

Rendered in earth toned hues of blue, plum and red, electrical components come to life in this intricate sculptural painting made of technological waste by Elias Sime. The materials are mainly sourced from Mercato, the biggest open-air market in Africa, in the Ethiopian artist’s hometown of Addis Ababa.

Sime’s lyrical abstract compositions oscillate between circuit boards and colour fields, engaging the viewer in an existential state of contemplation that is magnified through a prism of the interconnected world.

Don’t miss your chance to experience African diasporic perceptions of time through the works of 25 artists in ‘Keeping Time’, on view until the 11th of January on the Third Floor, Galleria Mall, Kempinski Hotel Accra.

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22/11/2024

Currently on view in Accra, Andrew Pierre Hart’s ‘The Listening Sweet II Ghana’ is a multidimensional collection of paintings and murals.

Interspersed within the gallery space are robust and rhythmic musical instruments sculpted from wood, reflected in the instruments being played by the musicians within the paintings. The colour palette that bursts from the canvases is inspired by Ghana’s national pride, as signified in a celebration of an all-encompassing national flag, eternally vibrating with undertones of resistance and
overtures of celebration.

Come and be explore Hart’s sonic mythology in ‘The Listening Sweet II Ghana’, on view until 11th January in Gallery I, Accra.

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21/11/2024

Throwback to the Crit Session we recently hosted in Lois Selasie Arde-Acquah’s studio prior to opening her solo exhibition.

These sessions are an integral part of the gallery’s Residency Programme to cultivate a space for critical engagement and reflection on the creative process of all Artists in Residence. We are looking forward to the next one!

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20/11/2024

The spectacular private view and opening night of ‘Echoes of Mundane Mindfulness’ during Accra Cultural Week immersed audiences into a world where the delicate balance of drawing, painting, cutting, and sewing emerge as infinite composite patterns on paper and canvas.

Lois Selasie Arde-Acquah’s new body of work for Gallery 1957 asks what if, instead of depleting meaning, repetition allows us to re-engage with ourselves and the world? The artist’s practice proposes that repetition, when done mindfully, can lead to new ways of seeing and being, creating space for reflection, collaboration, and growth.

‘Echoes of Mundane Mindfulness’ is on view until the 11th of January 2025 in Gallery II, Accra.

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19/11/2024

This is the final week to experience Tiffanie Delune’s solo exhibition ‘The Geography of Feelings’, a body of work inspired by the history of women weaving and sewing, but also its connection to Africa, which, across its many countries, has a rich textile history.

“The artist is drawn to the tactility that thread lends a painting; she calls it ‘a little bit of a 3D spirit, like you want to touch it’, something which counters what she sees as a negative: a static image. The middle bottom third of ‘Apophenia’ is dominated by a kind of cosmic tree, its branches curving sensually upwards, as if they’re floating; around it drift shapes that evoke jellyfish or seaweed, and thick crustations of sand. Stay long enough, and various associations emerge: a face or a fragment? Veins or sea-creatures Vertebrae or trees? Oceans or universes? Spirits or spectres? The options are endless.”

- Excerpt from a critical text by Jennifer Higgie

Don’t miss your chance to experience Delune’s ethereal exhibition ‘The Geography of Feelings’, on view until this Thursday 21st of November at Gallery 1957 London, 1 Hyde Park Gate SW7 5EW.

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15/11/2024

Looking back on the phenomenal experience that was Accra Cultural Week during which time we opened three exhibitions by Andrew Pierre Hart, Lois Selasie Arde-Acquah and the 25 artist group show ‘Keeping Time.’

A crowing moment of the week was Denyse Gawu-Mensah being awarded first prize in the fourth edition of the Yaa Asantewaa Art Prize.

We would love to extend our gratitude to all of our guests from near and far who made Accra Cultural Week 2024 a successful and unparalleled immersion in Ghana’s art ecosystem, from Cape Coast to Tamale and all of the beautiful spaces in between.

A special thanks to each and every artist, performer, curator, artist-led space and institution that make up our flourishing community.

Our exhibition spaces in Accra are on view until the 11th of January, all are welcome to come experience an array of contemporary art from Ghana and the diaspora.

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09/11/2024

Join us in celebrating the opening of ‘The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure’ at The Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Curated by British Ghanaian writer and curator Ekow Eshun, the major exhibition has travelled to The Philadelphia Museum of Art from the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Gallery 1957 is proud to have Godfried Donkor and Arthur Timothy featured amongst the 28 Black and African diasporic contemporary artists who use figurative painting, drawing and sculpture to illuminate and celebrate the nuance and richness of Black contemporary life.

‘The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure’ is on view at The Philadelphia Museum of Art until the 9th of February 2025.

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07/11/2024

In this radiant abstraction by Saint Lucian-born British painter Winston Branch, a lyrical quest is explored in an explosion of colourful intensity. The pulsating waves, kelp forests and deep-sea mountains that permeate the ocean coast are suggested on the largescale canvas reminiscent of a seascape.

Branch’s painting entitled ‘Today is Not a Surprise’ is being exhibited in ‘Keeping Time’, a group exhibition which weaves together a lattice of conceptual and aesthetic considerations about the experience of time, from the intergenerational to the geographic and historical.

‘Keeping Time’ is on view until the 11th of January on the Third Floor, Galleria Mall, Kempinski Hotel Accra.

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