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Lawrence Kwakye (1972), visual artist/ designer, studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven, but started to focus on painting at an early stage. Meanwhile, he also experiments with collages, video and photography and enters into dialogue with modern dance.
“My greatest creative
challenge is to imagine
my ideal civilization.”
Lawrence Kwakye (1972), visual artist / designer, studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE), and works on the cutting edge of art and design. Meanwhile, he also experiments with collages, video and photography and enters into dialogue with modern dance. As the son of a Ghanaian father and Hungarian mother, raised in the Netherlands, he grew up amidst an intriguing mix of social and cultural backgrounds and automatically developed a ‘contrasting’ view of the world, essential for the magical layering in his work.
Kwakye’s cultural diversity, his sense of aesthetics, his technical innovative drive and his fascination for transition, or in other words the process of change is clearly reflected in his current work. The result is accessible, the viewer picks it up straight away, but then seduces him into a discussion about what you actually see; it is what it is. Harmony versus disharmony. Kwakye’s visual work keeps on communicating.
In his work he works a lot with jute and fibers with glow-in-the-dark pigments, which on one side provides the necessary structure, but on the other is also flexible and offers different perspectives. Lawrence has participated in various group and solo exhibitions and art fairs in the Netherlands and Luxembourg and recently exhibited in Ghana.
Art Rotterdam week Performance & Exhibition, Open ArtExchange, Schiedam, Netherlands
Natural Backdrop Paintings, Kasteel de Wittenburg, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
Reghthuys, Nieuwkoop, The Netherlands
Sociaal Economische Raad SER, The Hague, Netherlands
Mee in Zee Atelier, The Hague, The Netherlands
Feng Sui Galeria, Fonyod, Hungary
ArtUp, Lille Grand Palais, France
CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2020 ITSLIQUID, International Art Fair
Mulhouse, International Contemporary Art Fair, via OpenArtExchange, Schiedam, Netherlands
Paris Art Fair, International Contemporary Art Fair, via OpenArtExchange, Schiedam, Netherlands
Back to Human, OpenArtExchange, Schiedam, Netherlands
Bob & I, Memory of Light, Installation & dance performance, co-creation between Lawrence Kwakye & FDR dance Company, OpenArtExchange, Schiedam, Netherlands
Rotterdam Art week, OpenArtExchange, Schiedam, Netherlands
Hello 2019, OpenArtExchange, Schiedam, Netherlands
Luxembourg Art Fair, via OpenArtExchange, Schiedam, Netherlands
#Exchange, OpenArtExchange, Schiedam, Netherlands
Diasporadical, BBnZ Live, Nima, Ghana
Art The Hague, via Gallery Indelibl, The Hague, Netherlands
Kunstbeurs Westeinderplassen, Aalsmeer, Netherlands
ECI Cultuurfabriek (Peperart) Art fair, Roermond, The Netherlands
Knokke Zoute L.A. Luxury & Art fair, Grand Casino Knokke, Belgium
Kunstbeurs Westeinderplassen, Aalsmeer, Netherlands
Kunstbeurs Noord Brabant, Netherlands
Art Gallery Sous Terre, Aalsmeer, The Netherlands
Kunstbeurs Westeinderplassen, The Netherlands
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