Print Price: £130
Original Price: £3,700
Using cocoa as a motif, this composition juxtaposes a silhouette of a cocoa plant against the surrounding community in their everyday rituals.
In this piece Nyornuwofia aims to draw a connection between cultural identity and how it is deeply rooted in nature using the chocolaty colours of the earth to convey a sense of evenness and groundedness.
| Medium | Painting |
|---|---|
| Material | Acrylics on canvas |
| Original size | |
| Print Size | 29.7 x 42 |
| Rarity | Unique |
| Signature | Signed in bottom corner of painting |
| Frame | Not included |
Being originally an autodidact artist, Ghanaian painter and musician Nyornuwofia Agorsor (b. 1983) supplemented her personally garnered skills with some studies at Kofi Agorsor’s studio. As an instrumentalist, songwriter, composer and performer, she is also the vivacious lead vocalist of the Agorsor Band.
Her works draw from certain esoteric African knowledge systems of education, which, in their fullness, train and tune the mind in order to bring forth one’s own creative genius. Nyornuwofia believes that there is an urgent need for Africa to change her servitude system of education, which, according to her, does little to encourage practicality, lacking the potential to nurture and grow the minds that will exploit and add value to our human and natural resources.
Employing mathematical and geometrical symbols, classroom spaces, and intelligible and unintelligible texts, she captures, sometimes with humour or satire, the position of Africa today, Africa tomorrow, and Africa yesterday. All come in the guise of pure stretches of colour and drawings tinged with an alluring childlike naiveté.
Alexandra Haddad
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