Regula Tschumi

Regula Tschumi ( born 1957 ) is a Swiss ethnologist and art historian.

Activities

Several research stays on contemporary African art led Regula Tschumi to West, South and East Africa. She has published a standard work on the figurative coffins of the Ga in southern Ghana, where she pursues, among other backgrounds that have led to the emergence of this unusual art form. They discovered the born about 1919 artists Ataa Oko from La ( Ghana), who had already built around 1945 figurative coffins. This Regula Tschumi refuted already in 2006 the story of Kane Kwei, which was attributed to now, the invention of figurative coffins of the Ga. In her dissertation Regula Tschumi goes further and looks at the first time with the figurative litters of Ga, a hitherto both in Ghana and in Western art circles little-known art form. It demonstrates in her thesis that certain heads of Ga have been used in the 1930s in Accra figurative litters in the form of their family totems. These Chiefs were then buried in coffins that looked the same as their litters. The figurative coffins of the Ga thus represent no artistic reinvention, but they are only the copies of the part still used today figurative litters that are largely kept secret by the Ga for various reasons and therefore rarely come into the public domain.

Regula Tschumi was involved in various exhibition projects of renowned museums, where she worked with the Ghanaian artists Paa Joe, Ataa Oko and Kudjoe Affutu.

Publications

  • The Figurative palanquins of the Ga. History and Significance. In: African Arts. Vol 46, No. 4, 2013, pp. 60-73.
  • The figurative litters and coffins of the Ga in southern Ghana. History, transformation and sense of artistic expression from the beginnings to the present. Diss Phil. - Hist. Univ. Basel, 2013.
  • Deathbed for a living. A coffin for the Centre Pompidou. In: Eva Huttenlauch (ed. ); Saâdane Afif. Another Anthology of Black Humor. MMK Museum of Modern Art. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2012 pp. 57-72.
  • Ataa Oko et le langage formula of Ga. In: Collection de l' Art Brut (ed.): Ataa Oko. Exhibition catalog. lnfolio, Gollion 2010, ISBN 978-2-88474-166-8.
  • The buried treasures of the Ga. Coffin Art from Ghana. Benteli, Bern 2006, ISBN 3-7165-1413-6.
  • With a sharper look. Kay Hassan in Johannesburg. In: Kunsthalle Bern (Ed.): Kay Hassan. Exhibition catalog. Bern 2003, pp. 40-43.

Photo Gallery artists

The two Ghanaian Sargküstler Ataa Oko and Kudjoe Affutu before Oko 's " Red Rooster coffin " in February 2009, Photo: Regula Tschumi

The "Pompidou coffin " of Kudjoe Affutu. This coffin was one of the objects that were on display in the exhibition " anthology de l' humor noir " at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2010. Photo: Regula Tschumi

Figural litter drawn by Ataa Oko 2009, Photo: Regula Tschumi

Figural litter drawn by Ataa Oko 2010 Photo: Regula Tschumi

Drawing of Ataa Oko 2010 Photo: Regula Tschumi

Paa Joe with his coffin Sandals 2006 Photo: Regula Tschumi

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