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THBWOSENE WORKE KOSROF, Portrait of a Word III
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About Auction
TimedJun 3, 2023 - Jun 4, 2023
The Live Auction will take place in person at the Crocker Art Museum on Saturday, June 3, 2023 and features select works of art by the Sacramento region’s most renowned artists. See the Auction Description for information on how to place an absentee bid by Thursday, June 1. Crocker Art Museum artauction@crockerart.org
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Wosene Worke Kosrof
Portrait of a Word III
2021
Acrylic on linen
34 x 19 in.
Fair market value: $14000Born in Ethiopia in 1950, Wosene (his professional name) is best known for his inventive renderings of the Amharic script, and as a master translator of the human experience. He is the first Ethiopian-born painter to use the script forms in contemporary art, inspired by the rich Ethiopian iconography and written traditions in which word and image are deployed to create aesthetically compelling objects of devotion and healing. In Wosene’s paintings, however, the words themselves become images and icons, beyond any literal meanings. This slippage between the visual and literal dimensions of script amounts to a kind of epiphany that reveals the aesthetic, sensory, even kinetic potential of the written word. Since his student years in Addis Ababa, American jazz has asserted a significant influence on his work. Like jazz music, the script provides a repertoire of dense, yet supple, elements that lend themselves well to visual improvisation. Jazz also shapes his sense of composition: like improvisational music, the language symbols can be juxtaposed on canvas in nonverbal ‘word-plays’ that create a visual language of form and color, rhythm and movement. Academically trained as a fine artist with a BFA from the School of Fine arts in Addis Ababa and an MFA from Howard University in Washington, DC, Wosene has gained critical attention on the international art scene with works in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; National Museum of Ethiopia; The Newark Museum, NJ; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Keith Haring Museum of Japan, Kobuchizawa;Volkerkunde Museum in Switzerland, to name a few, and in many international private collections.
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Height: 34.00Width: 19.00 - Shipping Info
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