ah, funny that's, that's how i see painting. i said painting as a problem or they come back as a problem or the paper problem suffers as a problem and you have to find solutions to solve that problem. with me. i'm what call while for a young painter from ghana, appeared on the international art seen like a bolt out of the blue. his works like hot cakes and the prices soon shut up a 1200000. the fashion world also took a fancy to his motifs. ah, we went with a mulatto blah,

full to trace his roots in the capital of gonna wait. he also sees his future. mm. how did the son, a decision from west africa's coast become a rising star of contemporary art and so quickly? ah, and what does he and others think of his success? mm. grandma and he's an artist who lives in his time and with his contemporary alyssa and i teach down and feel my them in there is the most recent star in the firmament. and he's gone through the roof in terms of attention, price, i've done it and also incredible recognize ability us and it will go over here the deck. i believe he's active ment is one of the rates of it for some of us because we know that you can make it tony young with.

mm hm. i was born and i was born. yeah. you know, so and then at some point i move with my father to montana. and then when he died, course we came back here because this when my mom stay, so don't move back to my father is a fisherman. so when you goes foresees, i'm down there, so i have to basically stay home and look after my siblings. and then, you know, you have to invent your in games because you mostly stuck on the house. that's where my friends also get to come to the house and that's where we kind of start drawing in to. it's more like a mini competition where we find out who did or copy the best cut. so we all will do the same thing. and then we'll be the judges and decide which of us to the best one. in just off the

coast, the central district of acura is known for its restaurants and my life in this is where he grew up in go with the more no more. the one on often visits his family a . so we stayed here for some time. actually this one. no, it's a button and then move to that one. i live with a 1000000 coffee toilet someone is you,

i don't know, you don't how to necessarily come from the same model. but no, once you are living in the same house that you are in the community or in the neighborhood, it's funny. that's how we grow. europe is very, you know, for yourself. and i mean sometimes it, it, okay. it gives you a lot of space to grow for yourself. but i, for it's, it's nice to have to for own that you, if you, you how to be to get out how to do things to get. i mean, it's just beautiful. mm. his studio has become a neighborhood meeting point, a being an artist or a painter in guy. you know, for sure that you don't have a career like,

you don't have a life. you know, you're not gonna make anything for me like this. you know from the beginning because your. busy parents love you, this supports you, but they would tell you point blank that you're not gonna make anything from it. and those supposed to you are the kissing. but in when you're done, you're going to tell you have to find a job. ah. so gala spas is it's, it's a big thing. it's kind of a way to get out. you know, so for me, i thought, you know, i'm going to make good money with tennis. and i thought, you know, i'm just going to get it. so at some point i was like, what if i'm not going to money? and i'm getting old like, why do i want to do a lot fancy like a lot drawing. so then i went to school to live,

my hobby, which is painting and and come back platonists make them one and then paint. but then i go stuck with painting and non tennis. is this a walker walker? i often say that amola coal is discounts tend to say that i have the impression that he scalps as painting his characters on guards of his reg. he's invented a new visual language with regard to skin, especially black skin oscars in because it's a very personal nation. oh wow, his painting has an organic aspect from bonus bane that has with to yoga. it's as if you can see the veins, and i'm just painting that gets under the skin who, while event for me, call certain but your it's work that has a lot of sense. you ality. see i have i, it's work that is deeply entwined with the body he's describing to so 33. he plays

with his fingers have a he has a sensuality, the cock, because he has a touch that his lips. i love it from the instrument and yes, it's all from the brush. he said at the fact that he came to study and learn about a theories and practices i live in and i was told, this is how it goes. these are the rules. and he still uses his fingers, it quite well in the end with us. but i think that's quite ironic if you know when he said wash what i say when he came back to school. good now to college of art and design was founded in 1969 and it was a hot bed of talent for decades. i thought it was forced to close 5 years ago due to lack of funds. this has gotta so they took my glassdoor, this is my glass, it was a wooden structure. i

think they had some problems with probably the government and also financial stuff that i didn't put it on her i've been cannot. i was a delayed financial stuff, but yeah, i really believe because i have to raise the money in make payment and i saw it is a pencil. what under bought for me it was amazing. i was thinking how to do it, but then, you know, i checked the energy of the class and do a laugh in like making fun of depressing. and so, you know, i had all my joys that i need to hide. so i hid onedrive because what i had was not even close to what this under bought and already do and making fun of

it. so i better not show it. and you know, that was gonna so didn't, i knew already that if you don't, you know, sit up, let, do astral, you're not gonna make it. so you know, i had to, i knew already arriving that i have to put extra work. ah, since when she saw seen a law co had the opportunity to study in europe at the academy of fine arts in vienna, it was time to leave at cra. it's all students with us if he has a very unique style. yeah, self taught key. but at the same time, we are sophisticated hover you whiskey though, as he copier or cover her. his training in vienna also taught him that there's a certain rigor and that it's necessary to know his influences. or in this case, the viennese expressionist painters in law. oh, i think he succeeded in combining 2 completely different styles. he had the complet

monte feeble, vienna's museum distance, quickly became the 2nd home of the gun. an art student is foster or off it is. i knew that he visited the leopold museum regularly so and had a strong affinity for sheila and for clamped thinker, i think for our for certainly got a sense of ornament from trenton. and from sheila he got the expressiveness on individual the austell, the search for self and identity to crib, the the deep as high to go put in the sense of being thrown into the wall to say, and constituting oneself as one or several individuals. was me or the individual? ah, for the 1st time since michael bluffer, college days. some of his early works are going on display in vienna in 2021. 3 self portraits from 2017. i ran. therefore for bring both memories.

oh, you know, the immense de la lake i was in a position or i was in a space where i needed to like to look into myself. and so for that article i turned the made sense. i like painting blo, buddies and hang vienna. you have less black buddies. it's just a boy. so in a way to keep up painting, dr. bodies will be just looking to myself is good to go back to the groups that they got to see how the study is the word have seen what to accomplish. this is latoya, but it's, it's, it's wonderful that they get to see how our started it was he or son done it all. so constitutes important to momentum her, her and him a thought and period in terms of the question, a black identity in a long like history on what i kissed young could book, would it be? so it's a question. many countries are asking,

disappear he about their accountability regarding their relation, shopping with africa, squeak. so no involvement in trade of a clue, co masser in slain for acre and colonialism cycle. industrial compet by no country can avoid that question too. so did the shipping them on the system i work by m o r cold wa fo city. amid the viennese modernist at the lee pulled museum, ah ah, the gift from a private leader collector now has its place among blah 1st great role models, eco. and sheila and gustav clint, who shaped v in his art nouveau in their time, they to revolutionized body in nature painting, just like waffle today. being the and i have in, you know, i says to all this,

it was amazing to finally know get to see some art and you know, be in touch with it. and also be in an environment where people actually appreciated and that, you know, kind of changed the way you also think about it. but in, you know, getting to vienna, seen all the different stylus in different me doing how people worked, you know, no, get in tune to witness or this is kind of changed me us like, oh, i just done have to really, really good. like i don't have to pin the peasant to look like the pacing order details to be good and you just have to be authentic. yeah, it took me a while. but then at some point i sat there like i'm thinking how to on lend the things that i learned and that was difficult because lennon, how to pin really good and then trying to lose enough. it was, it was,

it was a of course you can see the influence of ego, and sheila, in the signature is very similar to she did in the media. that's interesting to english feed that it's an example of how much a going sheila influenced him, at least in this case, need be any stairs indecent pilot behind with their bit enigmatic baby and a bit pensive, sometimes not dang, they're free and they know what they are if they're proud of themselves, they looked squarely at themselves in my life. very simple. i like to audi use, the was busy,

but i like to be as simple as possible. no, not too much so i don't want to be loud. and then at some point i arrived with the finger painting was uncomfortable. i didn't know what i was doing because again, i just couldn't control it. but when i finished to face painting, i say this is special. i do i sent in to a friend of mine. i was like, i dis fresh. this is that he said wishing risha flag. ha no, but i'm like it makes me like you. i feel good last night. yeah. i just, you know, i don't, i, no one don't stop painting with the brush. so i kept printing the brice and doing my finger painting, trying know how to simplify, how to,

you know, for me does, that's how i see painting. i said painting. i said problem or the congress has a problem. our deposit problem suffers as a problem and you have to find solutions to solve that problem. at any rate, it blah false paintings have triggered a boom on the not market. oh, by a marco bow, awful. 6000000, 800000. you are swap that a 1000000000000000 200000. on the summer of 2020 fueled in part by debate surrounding the black lives matter movement, while photos work sold at auction for more than 15 times their estimated price. so the 1200000. congratulations, jackie, because of the, the appeal when you reach such high prices, you have to listen to the market for the mattress and the market is same. i c, d, c. we won 10 malackle over and walk at any price and then bought the market. so

seattle, mushy. it. ok. so you have to be able to find a balance between what the market once us could have here and what's good for the r t secure in the long run. along here i'm workable, our phone is not the 1st artist to be thrust into dizzying heights of fame by the art world. it's a beautiful thing to for a special but yours. i just have to know that she just an ordinary person and everything can go wrong. he knows how inconsistent that success can be sworn o my say. oh, my voice. oh, oh. oh, i mean i have doth obscene to move anywhere i want to and leave all the life you

live that one by you know, it cannot say does disappear like that if you don't. but dwarf, i did take care and continue to explore new territory to. if you look on my dainties, you will see the freshman has a big role. so i love i, she, you know, you don't have to see it. but what you were says everything. intrigued by blossoms, love of fashion. ch, kim jones, the created director a d. o invited him to collaborate on the summer collection of 2021 in very tabla amo new was in real harmony on the connection between kim gems and amola. cole. bhaskar kim james lift in africa for quite a long time, vicar,

and also spent time in gone at briefly in his youth by said he thought he was gonna okay, it's not unknown to rain for him in a private tour until it was like when you're 41 shed, the eyes rushed. i'll he made more detriment, died out on the heart, always influences fashion. so again, more days our i dialed a school ground, vice versa on van viewed on, i'm awkward to him by speed. it can be said that fashion as a part of creativity, really act in these and 5 and d r. thinking about m o r co and his project with your eyes. and i know more got more. i hope that he can reach a broader audience. this little book, which might also be or become interested in art the, on the life, al goldstein's, i see it see and order quantity and to see it dead in. mm

though i'm more called while full enjoy success. he's less keen on the hype, so he's pulled back into his corner as he puts it, and that's at home in acura. he wants to set up a new art school in o soon and while coy, i'm like, who is a very, very generous person. if you will defer a, someone have won't forget his roots, his origins from them all, and what is lacking him a certain bacon african cities or structures for artists structures that enable creation, but also production field acquisition. okay. so this on my earlier works. yeah. these are lewis. i'm often both. when i started to sound critics enough, i visit, he's a wise collector, luscious. he supports his contempt freezing mice. they were over. i did the quote, he also discovered them fast, faster than the professionals. don't come walk or a pulsing clue. he thought about residency when artists can create on the ground to

hong k. and we, if, if the observers they will gather the collectors vehicle, you will have to move around to them. the figure blessing it was just a trial to see how people war act with each other being the same space working. now just to get it done and i'm so i just fossil them to understand or see how it is like to work with each other and also take from each other. so why that's why i go into space and i think was the time it's really nice to have your own studio space where you know, you feel free to do whatever you want in the space. a mako is a friend of mine, you school done at the college of art and design. so we're back. we started or school so you got a chance in trouble outside. so you came back, we said, okay, have a student face. i think this place has been a good place to help some of us contemporary artists and gardner here i think we

are doing great, great works in this studio space. there's something that i got in vienna that i feel like dental getting. so with my university, for example, i have a professor that you know, you do a presentation and dates from time to time. the criticize a way and you know, it depends how you take it and then you go from there. and i feel like they don't have it, you know, it's like everyone works. india always show and that's it. and so bringing them out here, working with each other, interacting meal. they will go to each other studio and they will make comment. i come in, we go visit one out is to the ada in every one have to say something like, you know, you look at it work and you make a comment and you like it, what you feel they can do better. and that's how they go. and i feel like that's what i got from, you know, because in here we are, learn how to paint. and i mean, we have the technique, we can, we can do it. but you know,

presentation and learning how to, to talk about someone else's work. and, you know, getting criticize to, to be better is something that we did not get. so i think that's what i'm giving them. and maybe they see that i actually started working on my police at all. and when i have my teeth, my clothes and everything are on me, my freeze my tv and when they always zip in, i charlie pay me a surprise visit. so he came in there and was like no on the split is too small for you are the big police, thats i dont fix you. you gotta start working on your own and start developing new style. and i saw that this place is well good. and also big for me, for me to start exploring what, what is with the foundation stone for his artist in residence project has been late . and the plan is to build

a complex with several studios opposite his own studio. ben in the west kellogg issue, how the community is like, you know, they have so many spaces and that makes you feel more comfortable being a notice and i feel like, you know, i should be that same in my community. so may i thought if i have them is i'm gonna make and that's in the gulf of guinea is just a few minutes away by con amola cove waffle accompanies his mother. then it's time to reflect upon everything that's happened. what's coming to he is i usually been defensive for painting. so i will

paint everything my head. so i see a character. i think of what i want to do, you know, like do everything in my head, finish it. and that comes in. so once i come to the comment, i know what i'm doing well for you a unique wall. this is not, that's where you have to go, right? i'd like that because you know, i couldn't tell by then that this is going to go because it wasn't really not. i wasn't really, wasn't saying anything at all. so we got in been out for ah,

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