Ouattara Watts
Ouattara Watts by Dieter Buchhart is a comprehensive monograph published by Karma in 2024, featuring 496 pages in English. This volume serves as the first thorough exploration of the work of Ouattara Watts, an artist whose practice spans nearly four decades and incorporates a diverse array of materials and symbols. The book presents a rich tapestry of cosmograms, numerals, and other relics, showcasing how Watts interrelates these elements to challenge hierarchies and foster new connections.
Readers will find a detailed examination of Watts’ artistic journey, which includes traditional mediums like acrylic and gouache alongside unconventional materials such as papier-mâché and textiles sourced from flea markets. The monograph includes essays by notable figures such as Kaelen Wilson-Goldie and Lawrence Rinder, as well as a significant conversation between Watts and curator-critic KJ Abudu, marking the first longform interview with the artist since 1995. This edition not only highlights the history and criticism surrounding Watts’ work but also serves as a catalog of his artistic contributions.
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The multimedia artist’s first-ever thorough monograph, teeming with cosmograms, numerals and other relics
This volume is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of Ouattara Watts (born 1957). Over the course of nearly four decades, the Abidjan-born, New York-based artist has developed a painting practice that places cosmograms, numerals, cloth and other symbols and relics from around the world into relation with each other, leveling hierarchies and creating new relations in the process. Alongside traditional mediums such as acrylic and gouache, the artist embeds materials from a kaleidoscopic range of sources in his monumental, densely layered canvases: papier-mâché, fallen leaves, textiles gleaned from flea markets and photographic reproductions, among others. This volume features essays by writer Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, curator Lawrence Rinder and artist Dieter Buchhart, as well as a conversation between the artist and curator-critic KJ Abudu–the first longform interview with the artist since his 1995 dialogue with Okwui Enwezor.
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