About

In 1969, as a young textile designer who had just completed his training in Accra in neighbouring Ghana, he saw woodblock prints by Nigerian artists while visiting an exhibition - and was spontaneously fascinated by the technique, which had been unknown to him until then. In his own artistic reaction, EL Loko initially produced black and white drawings in a similar style. Having moved to Germany in 1971 and been accepted to study at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, he presented these drawings to his teacher and patron Joseph Beuys. Expressly encouraged by Beuys, he began producing wood prints on …