49 min listen
KOJO MARFO, AFRO-EXPRESSIONIST ARTIST
FromThe Art Business
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Length:
62 minutes
Released:
Jan 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Kojo Marfo's work has become familiar to Londoners living and working in the West End over the last two years since appearing in the 'Isolation Mastered' open competition finalists' exhibition at JD Malat Gallery in Mayfair in the summer of 2020 following months of lockdown. His magnificent portrait paintings caught the eye of important collectors, so much so that Kojo was given a solo show in the summer of 2021, beautifully named 'Dreaming of Identity' (catalogue introduction written by podcast creator David Bellingham. In this podcast we discuss Kojo's influences and his poetic visual responses to the pandemic, his African heritage and contemporary global society and culture.
intro and outro music
‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama)
by TOT TAYLOR
is used by kind permission of the artist
©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)
PRS/MCPS/PPL
intro and outro music
‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama)
by TOT TAYLOR
is used by kind permission of the artist
©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)
PRS/MCPS/PPL
Released:
Jan 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (50)
CONRAD CARVALHO, PRIZE DIRECTOR OF THE EMERGING ARTIST PRIZE, ART CONSULTANT AND CORPORATE ART ADVISOR: Conrad studied Pure & Applied Mathematics at Warwick University and his early career was in oil derivatives trading. He took my summer school in Art & Its Markets at Sotheby's Institute of Art and was inspired to become an art consultant and dealer. ... by The Art Business