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Ataa Oko
Ataa Oko (c. 1919 - 9 December 2012)〔()〕 was a Ghanaian builder of figurative palanquins and fantasy coffin and at over 80 years of age he became a painter of Art Brut.
==Biography==
Ataa Oko was born around 1919 in the coastal town of La, Ghana. He never went to school, but worked since he was about 13 years old as a fisherman. Later his family sent him on the cocoa plantations in the Ashante Region. From 1936 to 1939 he was trained as a carpenter in Accra. From 1939 to 1970 he worked in numerous temporary employments.
According to Regula Tschumi, Ataa Oko started to build figurative coffins around 1945.〔(Sujet à polémique )〕 He had been inspired by the figurative palanquins he had seen in Accra. These palanquins were used by the Ga chiefs already at the beginning of the 20th century. The palanquins were built in the form of the respective family symbols which the Ga chiefs were using.〔Regula Tschumi: "The Figurative Palanquins of the Ga. History and Significance", in: ''African Arts'', Vol. 46, Nr. 4, 2013, pp. 60-73.〕 Around 1960 Ataa Oko opened his own coffin and palanquin workshop in La.
The last years of his life, Ataa Oko was retired and hardly built coffins any more. But since 2005 he became a painter in collaboration with Regula Tschumi. Ataa Oko's coffins and drawings were first exhibited in the group show "Six Feet Under" at the Kunstmuseum Berne 2006 and 2010/11 he had first one-man show in the well known Collection de l'art brut in Lausanne.〔''Ataa Oko'', exhibition catalogue, 2010, ed. Collection de l'art brut, Lausanne.〕〔http://www.letemps.ch/QueryResult#〕 Ataa Oko died in Accra in December 2012.
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