El
Loko
Born in Pédakondji / Togo
1965-68 Training as Textile-Designer
in Accra / Ghana
1971 until 1979
Studies at the Governmental Art Academy of
Düsseldorf, Sculpture-Painting-Graphic Art
with Professors Joseph Beuys, Heerich and Crummenauer
finished off with a Master of Arts Diploma
Exhibitions since 1972 in Düsseldorf, Duisburg,
Cologne, Bremen, Wuppertal, Stuttgart, Hamburg,
Krefeld, Bonn, Bochum, University of Breslau / Polen, Ghana Museum / Accra,
Goethe-Institute / Togo, Zurich, Wil SG / Switzerland, London, Boston, Mayflower
Gallery /
Washington D.C., Peg Alston Arts / New York, Contemporary Arts / Chicago, Afro-American
Historical and Cultural Museum / Philadelphia.
1990 Founding of
the Artists association "Weber-Vögel" with Bodo Berheide and Bernhard
Lüthi, Wuppertal
1995 Artists exchange project.
1995 Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg.
1996 "African-European Inspiration"
Pédakondji /Togo-Alsdorf / Germany
Activities and performances.
1997 Dany Keller
Gallery
1998 Gallery 'Am
Goldenen Boden', Wil / Switzerland
El Loko
works
almost entirely figuratively.
His
works open a cosmos fantasy
geometric
or
contradictory
shapes,
which
he identifies with We
have to make mention of another side of his way of expressing himself: In
many
poems and in a similar way in his pictures, he has explained himself in a
masterly fashion to our world.
He has devoted himself
to many themes from his environment - correspondingly there is the variety of
his means of expression. With very strong and at the same time very
harmonic colour combinations of many of his pictures and plastics he recalls
the colours of his African homeland. His art is a component of life, nature,
the world.
Dem
Rudel das Bild erklären 1994-95
Installation
consisting of 27 wall elements und 69 individual pieces 300x600x200 cm
El
Loko (Paper, sand und pigments on canvas) "Red figure with cross"
102x96 cm
 
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