About

Tegene Kunbi’s works produced at the recent Gallery 1957 residency are visual sensation statements of idiosyncratic polychromatic painterly patterns sharpened with remarkable voice. Born in Addis Ababa in 1980 and based in Berlin, the artist’s distinctively saturated and refreshingly bold series moulded at the contemporary art gallery’s Accra space is an array of large and small canvases thickly layered with oil stick, acrylic, pastel and oil paint applied generously with palette knives, paint brushes and by hand. Even-sized rectangular grid forms are bonded within some of the interstices …