A sculptor is building a Black universe entirely out of Legos -- saying 'This is fine art. It's not a hobby, it's not a toy, it's not part of the Lego fandom.'
For 42-year-old Ghanaian Canadian artist Ekow Nimako, Lego is more than just a kids' toy. A trickster deity in the form of a spider, a flower girl holding a giant bee and a Ghanaian kingdom in the year 3020 are all sculptures that he has built using only black Legos.
Nimako uses black Lego bricks specifically for three main reasons. The first is technical; black is one of theThe second is that he simply likes the color."I think there's something that is so sophisticated, something that is just expansive about black, and then there's also something that is dark and sometimes foreboding or haunting about black. It has so much spectrum to it," he explained.
Nimako is a futurist who used approximately 100,000 Lego pieces to construct a reimagining of the medieval kingdom of Ghana, titled "Kumbi Saleh 3020 CE."In his"Building Black: Civilizations" series, Nimako reimagines medieval sub-Saharan African narratives. His"Kumbi Saleh 3020 CE" piece, which is made up ofLego bricks and can be found in the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, is named after the capital city of a medieval Ghanaian kingdom.
"My wife always says, 'all movements of resistance are rooted in that imagination.' You have to imagine the freedom, the emancipation. You have to imagine this struggle being over. You have to project that in order to rise up, in order to resist. What else are you resisting for, if not for that Promised Land?" he said."Even art is a form of resistance and it's been used as a form of resistance for a very long time.
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