West to West: Owusu-Ankomah & Friends

Owusu-Ankomah (Sekondi, Ghana, 1956) is one of the best known representatives of contemporary African art. At the age of 15 he started his studies at the Ghanatta College of Art in Acra. In 1986 he moved to Bremen, where he has lived and worked for 27 years now. His lage-format and vividly colored works depict a spiritual world occupied by people and symbols. Owusu-Ankomah equally finds his inspiration in Renaissance artist Michelangelo and in the philosophy of his own Akan-speaking peoples of Ghana.

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