Wosene Worke Kosrof "WordPlay"
Skoto Gallery
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Skoto Gallery presents WordPlay, an exhibition of recent paintings by the Ethiopian-born artist Wosene Worke Kosrof. Wosene Worke Kosrof’s recent work continues his long-standing inventive exploration of the interplay between language, identity, aesthetic beauty and material, using the language symbols of Amharic – one of the few ancient written systems in Africa – as a core compositional element. He is a prolific artist who has consistently employed a vocabulary of signs and symbols, a rigorous compositional organization and uncompromising ability to fuse form and concept with the narrative power of his work in his encounters with history and global transformations over the past three decades. He elongates, distorts, disassembles and re-configures the language characters in a wide-ranging palette, moving beyond literal conventions of words, to create a visual language that deftly incorporates sounds, textures and rhythms of jazz, but that also speaks boldly and clearly to a universal audience.
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Schedule
from October 22, 2009 to November 28, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-10-22 from 18:00 to 20:00