At the Orca Deco Art Exhibition, Patrick William Dodoo and others display luxury art in honor of Ghana Independence Month
Patrick William Dodoo, Betty Acquah, Enoch Yaw Mensah, and Emmanuel Mawuko Arkutu bring works together for a presentation in a large art exhibition hosted inside the lobby of Orca Deco Ghana as a highlight of the country’s Independence Day celebration month.
Great crowds of people attended the art exhibition, which opened on March 4 and is set to remain until March 21. They were enthralled by the superb taste and style of the rich artworks exhibited. In honor of the exhibition, Mohamad AL ROZ, the Sales Director of Orca Deco, kicked off the occasion with a speech expressing gratitude to the brand’s devoted customers and concluded with a video that projected the brand’s evolution and the incredible products customers can expect to find at their showroom. To complete the celebration of Ghana’s Independence, a 20% discount was granted to all visitors to the art show on any purchases made during the month of March 2023.
The artwork on display is stunning, and the pricing is excellent and appropriate for each piece. Those attendees who made it to the art exhibition had the opportunity to speak with the creators of each piece directly.
Painting from the Dark Age Series by Patrick William Dodoo, one of the artists whose works powerfully expressed the artist. Patrick went on to describe the rationale for a painting of an old, wrinkly man, whose face is obscured by numerous hands. In his words, as paraphrased, Patrick mentioned, “This painting is to show a man who upon his old age, still feels restricted from voicing out his truth, and openly talking about issues facing humanity, this art was exhibited in relation to Global Warming, and it’s negative effects yet those who truly care, feels their mouth sealed from speaking out.
The excellent saxophone tune played by Borsah is another one of the main highlights of the art exhibition! The event was a success, with delicious savory toppings and cocktails for everyone to enjoy.
PROFILE OF THE EXHIBITED ARTISTS
PATRICK WILLIAM DODOO: Patrick William Dodoo [B.1986] is an artist and educator who lives and works in Ghana. His interdisciplinary practice traverses the studio, the classroom, socially engaged interventions, and scenography for theatre productions. He studied at the Takoradi Polytechnic and the University of Education, Winneba respectively. He is passionate about using his art to lend a voice to the needs of the vulnerable in society. Painting in the medium of acrylic on canvas, his instantly recognizable black and white palette brings to life in celebratory fashions the images of your everyday person. His paintings usually have flat vibrant backgrounds juxtaposed with contrasting black-and-white portraits of people with different facial expressions and body postures.Patrick is also the founder of Painting. The Open [PITO] an initiative that seeks to demystify the process of artists working by setting up makeshift artist studios in public and inviting members of the public to join in the process of creating artwork. Patrick has exhibited widely.
ENOCH YAW MENSAH: Enoch Yaw Mensah is an artist living and working in Ghana. He is a graduate of Ghannatta College of Art. His works reflect on Ghana and its intricate connection to the rest of Africa. His formative years were spent in his father’s studio working with textiles and learning to carve.Working in the medium of oil, watercolour, acrylic, charcoal, pastel, and ink, his work captures the social, environmental and symbolic aspects of life in Ghana. He incorporates indigenous symbols in his art not only to preserve his heritage and ancestry but also as a way of honouring the lessons learnt as a boy from his father. His art depicts the daily scenes of Ghanaian children at play, market women, and people deeply engrossed in their occupations. Enoch Yaw Mensah is a proud recipient of many awards including 20041st Prize: Shell GAVA Art Competition, 2005 1st Prize: Shell GAVA Art Competition, 2006 1st Prize: The Unimax Macmillan Children’s Illustrator Award for Africa and 2nd Prize2007: Ghana @ 50 Art Award. He has had many exhibitions and his work can also be found in many private homes and businesses in the United States, Europe and Ghana.
BETTY ACQUAH: Betty Acquah is an artist who lives and works in Ghana. She obtained both her B.A. (Hons) in Art and M.F.A. (Painting) from the College of Art and Built Environment, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. Working mostly in the medium of painting, Betty’s works are characterized by bodies in various postures indicative of movements. She depicts her female figures frequently in load-carrying postures and her male figures frequently in dance movements. She uses a technique she associates with pointillism in which she breaks down her images into tiny pixels and lines.
Betty Acquah is affiliated with the Ghana Association of Visual Artists and the Artists Alliance Gallery Accra. She has exhibited her paintings in Ghana, Nigeria, UK, India, Germany, Spain, Japan and USA.
EMMANUEL MAWUKO ARKUTU: Emmanuel Mawuko Arkutu is an artist living and working in Ghana. With an interest in African mythology, he uses a vast array of colours and a variation of style to draw the viewer into an old world of Africa symbolism. Mawuko also treats each painting as an exciting opportunity for him to explore and experiment with his primary obsession with colour. His abstraction of African symbols and mask heads, explores the philosophy of rebirth and renewal associated with some of these symbols.Mawuko has had several public art commissions, notable among them are his murals at Kotoka International Airport (Departure Hall), the Ghana International Trade Fair Centre (Accra), the Vodafone Ghana (Head Office Airport City) and the Holiday Inn Hotel (Accra) just to mention a few. His works can also be found in the collections of Apex Shipping Company Ltd , Diamond Capital Ltd, Ampco Heavy Equipment, First Banc Financial Ltd and the University Of Ghana Legon.
