Pop-Up: Serge Attukwei Clottey: Routes
Pop-Up | Feb. 12-29, 2020
TMR at Platform | 8850 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232 | Space 108
Hours: Mon – Sun, 11am-6pm
This is a past exhibition.
TMR partners with Platform for a pop-up presentation of works by Ghanaian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey.
About the Pop-Up.
TMR is pleased to partner with Platform—a community of independent merchants, influential chefs, and creative organizations in Culver City, CA—to present a pop-up exhibition opening during Frieze Los Angeles. Serge Attukwei Clottey: Routes encompasses a series of installations of the Ghanaian artist’s iconic plastic woven works presented in Space 108 on the Platform campus as well as in two large-scale public vitrines visible from Washington Blvd.
Following his exhibition at TMR’s Downtown Los Angeles venue, amidst the industrial and shipping bustle of the Alameda Corridor, Clottey’s cross-town journey to Culver City, and Platform, builds on and expands the connections between his practice and contemporary systems of trade and commerce. Clottey’s signature multicolored wall works made from plastic Kuofur gallons—themselves repurposed by Ghanaians to carry and store potable water—take on a charged meaning when presented in a shop-like gallery space amongst other retailers and restaurants. Two additional installations will be presented high above the rush-hour traffic of Washington Blvd—in Platform’s illuminated showcase vitrines. From street view, the intricate works will function as beautiful billboards that speak to interconnectedness, global trade, and the relationship between art and consumerism.
About the Artist.
Serge Attukwei Clottey (b. 1985, Ghana) lives and works in Accra, Ghana. Working across installation, performance, photography and sculpture, Clottey explores personal and political narratives rooted in histories of trade and migration. Based in Accra and working internationally, Clottey refers to his work as “Afrogallonism”, a concept that confronts the question of material culture through the utilisation of yellow gallon containers. Cutting, drilling, stitching and melting found materials, Clottey’s sculptural installations are bold assemblages that act as a means of inquiry into the languages of form and abstraction. Clottey attended the Ghanatta College of Art and Design in Ghana before studying at the Escola Guinard University of Art in Brazil and has completed multiple fellowships abroad. He works in a variety of media including performance, photography, video, painting, drawing, and sculpture. Recent exhibitions include KUBATANA at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway; Current Affairs at Fabrica Gallery and Gold Standard at Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco. His work is in the collection of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, Kansas), the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (Marrakech, Morocco), the Nubuke Foundation (Accra, Ghana), the Seth Dei Foundation (Accra, Ghana), Modern Forms (UK), and The World Bank Collection (Washington D.C.), as well as a number of international private collections.
About Platform. A culture-setting destination at the nexus of LA’s Culver City, Platform is a walkable collection of independent and first-to-market merchants, eateries and creative businesses—each with an original offering only at Platform. Platform serves as a canvas for innovative and emerging brands and talent across the cultural spectrum to realize new concepts (permanent and evolving) and collaborate on standout programming. Platform is located below LA’s Metro Gold Line at 8850 Washington Blvd. For more information, a full list of businesses and what’s on, visit: https://www.platformla.com/
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Credits
Serge Attukwei Clottey: Routes is organized by TMR and curated by Carlos J. Mendez, TMR Development Associate and Special Projects Coordinator.
TMR's program is made possible with the support of its Board of Directors, Big Mistake Patron Group, International Council, and Contemporary Council.
Support for this pop-up is provided by Platform.
Photo Credit: The Mistake Room. Copyright 2020. The Mistake Room Inc.