Asase Fine ArtAccra · Fine Art

2026-06-18

Adinkra and contemporary abstraction

How Ghanaian symbols become modern painting without becoming cliché.

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Answer first: The best contemporary work does not illustrate Adinkra like a textbook — it metabolises geometry, proverbs, and memory into form.

Collectors should ask whether a work earns its cultural reference or merely prints it for export taste.

Kwesi Mensah’s studio practice is one example of symbol as structure, not sticker.

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