Paa Joe

Paa Joe (né Joseph Tetteh-Ashong; bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1947) o nyɛla ŋun nyɛ Ghanaian sculptor, ni figurative palanquin n ti pahi kum daadaka nim kaapinta. Joe nyɛla bɛ ni mi so ka o nyɛ ŋun kpaŋdi o maŋ pam di kana ban maani kum daadaka nim ni Ghana tingbanni bee  abebuu adekai (“proverb boxes”) nucheeni tuun tumdi saha ŋɔ. O nyɛla ŋun na min be duniya zaa nucheeni tuma yaɣili ni bin din gbaagi yuuni 1989, ka nyɛ ŋun be major exhibition nim ni tinsi kamani Europe, Japan, n ti pahi  USA nim zaa puuni. O kun daadaka nim maa shɛŋa nyɛla din be yaɣa nim puuni kamani  British Museum n be  London, ni Brooklyn Museum be New York, ni Royal Ontario Museum in Canada, ni  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, ni National Museum of Ethnology be Osaka n ti pahi din pahipahi. 

 Solo mini group exhibitions 
 Yuuni 2020 "Paa Joe: Gates of No Return", High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Yuuni 2017 Gallery 1957 "One does not take it anywhere."
Yuuni 2017 Jack Shainman Gallery "The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness."
 Yuuni 2017 Fondation Cartier Paris
 Yuuni 2012 Brooklyn Museum
 Yuuni 2012 Southbank, UK
 Yuuni 2011 Salon 94 New York
 Yuuni 2011 Jack Bell Gallery, UK
 Yuuni 2011 V&A museum UK
 Yuuni 2010–11 "Living and Dying Gallery" British Museum London
 Yuuni 2007–2008 Six Feet Under, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
 Yuuni 2006 Melbourne Festival
 Yuuni 2006 Six Feet Under, Kunstmuseum Bern
 Yuuni 2005 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City
 Yuuni 2003 Schokolade, die süsse Verführung, Museum für Völkerkunde Basel
 Yuuni 2002 Autolust, Stapferhaus Lenzburg, Switzerland 
 Yuuni 1989 Les Magiciens de la terre, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Kundivihira

 Further reading 
 2014 Regula Tschumi: Concealed Art. The figurative palanquins and coffins of Ghana. Edition Till Schaap, Bern. .
 2014 Regula Tschumi: The buried treasures of the Ga: Coffin art in Ghana. Edition Till Schaap, Bern. . A revised and updated second edition of Benteli 2008.
 2013 Regula Tschumi: The Figurative Palanquins of the Ga. History and Significance, in: African Arts, vol. 46, 4, p. 60-73.
 2015 Paa Joe and the Lion, a film by Ben Wigley (director) and Anna Griffin (producer), Notthingham, GB.
 2006. Regula Tschumi: Last Respect, First Honoured. Ghanaian Burial Rituals and Figural Coffins". In: Kunstmuseum Bern (Hg.): Six Feet Under. Exhibition Catalogue. Kerber, Bielefeld & Leipzig, p. 114-125.
 2004. Regula Tschumi: A Report on Paa Joe and the Proverbial Coffins of Teshie and Nungua, Ghana. In: Africa e Mediterraneo, no 47-48, p. 44-47.
 Thierry Secretan: Going into darkness,'' Hazan 1995.

 External links 
 PAA JOE in: Eine fantastische Himmelsreise - Särge aus Ghana
 Paa Joe: The Ghanan coffin maker, Artikel von Achola Rosario in The Independent (Uganda) vom 20. Januar 2012

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