Born in 1970 at Akatsi in the Volta Region of the Republic of Ghana, Kofi Agorsor is one of Ghana's most inventive and lyrical young painters. After working briefly as a house painter and then a sign-writer, which ignited his interest in art, Agorsor abandoned his studies at the Kpando Technical Institute to enrol at the Ankle College of Art in Accra, where he obtained a Diploma in Art in 1993. Agorsor's charming paintings succeed in developing a visual language inspired by Ghanian life that is inclusive and archetypal without being hackneyed. A strong element of formal design is always present in his work with schematic figures set against geometric areas of colour. Cultural aspects of the work are treated lightly; Agorsor is a painthttp://theauctionroom.com/auctions/9...