These “fantasy coffins” look like they came straight from a cartoon but they are totally real. They were built by skillful carpenters in Ghana. These colourful objects which have developed out of the figurative palanquins are not only coffins, but considered real works of art, were shown for the first time to a wider Western public in the exhibition Les Magiciens de la terre at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris in 1989 and in many international art museums and galleries around the world.
