Ethiopia

Wosene Worke Kosrof

This gallery has been showing Wosene Worke Kosrof’s work long enough to remember his early experiments in transforming Amharic symbols into Contemporary fine art. His bold colors, textures and compositions encourage us to ‘read’ language as an aesthetic, rather than a linguistic, convention. Wosene’s script becomes a ‘word-play’ of visual metaphors that speak to all viewers. As a testament to the many audiences Wosene has touched with his universal language, his works have been collected by institutions as varied as the United Nations, the Volkerkunde Museum in Zurich, Switzerland and The National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian