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Triennale Milano
Gideon Appah, The Dancers, 2022, Image courtesy of the artist and Gallery 1957
Exhibition

Ghana A Nubian Landscape

July 15 – December 11 2022
The new series of paintings by Gideon Appah features figures in positions of leisure and depictions of rituals in areas where land and sky meet. He abandons the city scenes to create a world where romance is radical, a world made of mystery. The artist’s figurative compositions are taken from newspaper clippings, entertainment posters, and films produced between the 50s and the 80s to explore the rise and fall of Ghanian cinema and leisure culture, always adding his own artistic imagination to the mix. In the most recent works, Appah manifests a new desire to paint atmospheric elements, particularly clouds and stars, as backgrounds to his poetic narrative. While pondering ways of painting new skies, mountains, rivers, and hills, we observe the artist’s transition from a recurrent use of a nostalgic blue, which permeated most of his compositions until date, to a strong red never used before. Appah’s visual poetry remains a dedication to love; Gideon’s characters are captured in bucolic views expressing this sentiment through their intimate bodily motions and a strong sense of fragility that perpetuate the artist’s long-standing eulogy to love and sentimentality.  
Credits
Organising institution: Gallery 1957 Artist: Gideon Appah Curator: Marwan Zakhem Production Manager: Angelica Litta Modignani Communication: Pelham Communications London | New York Set Design: Gallery 1957

Archives and collection

Sculture piramidali di Lynn Chadwick, nell’allestimento del Grande numero: l’intervento figurativo a grande scala
Sculture piramidali di Lynn Chadwick, nell’allestimento del Grande numero: l’intervento figurativo a grande scala
Veduta della Torre Littoria
Veduta della Torre Littoria
Veduta notturna dell’abitazione a cupola geodetica di Füller, progetto dell’allestimento dell’architetto Roberto Mango, realizzata nel parco Sempione per la decima Triennale
Veduta notturna dell’abitazione a cupola geodetica di Füller, progetto dell’allestimento dell’architetto Roberto Mango, realizzata nel parco Sempione per la decima Triennale
Una modella posa all'interno della Mostra di oggetti per la casa (o Mostra Oggetti d'uso), nel Padiglione USA progettato dagli architetti Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti e Ernesto Nathan Rogers
Una modella posa all'interno della Mostra di oggetti per la casa (o Mostra Oggetti d'uso), nel Padiglione USA progettato dagli architetti Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti e Ernesto Nathan Rogers