During Art Basel 2024 Ocula Advisors, Simon Fisher, Rory Mitchell and Eva Fuchs picked out eight must-see artworks at the fair. Among them are Alice Neel's portrait of her lover's daughter at Victoria Miro, Thomas Schütte's glass cast face at Frith Street Gallery, and Atta Kwami's colourful abstract at Goodman Gallery.
Goodman Gallery announced its representation of the estate of Ghanaian painter Atta Kwami (1956–2021) in early 2024.
Kwami's colourful works, characterised by blocky, geometric patterns, draw on the rich artistic heritage of his native Ghana. His vibrant colour fields tap into Ewe and Asante strip-woven textile traditions, as well as influences from West African architecture, music, pottery, and wall paintings. The acrylic-on-linen painting Another Momen’t (1999) features streaky, rough brushwork interwoven with solid, flat planes, all arranged in an idiosyncratic manner. Brown, black, red, and yellow square and rectangular blocks run parallel, separated by thinner segments of white, blue, and grey paint. Unlike the hard-edged and precise abstractions of his Western precursors, Kwami's patchwork of colours exudes spontaneity and raw energy.
