where is Wosene?

This site has recently undergone a significant change; www.teleculture.com got started in 1998 and as an intial test for how to organize content we created Wosene's World. It featured the Ethiopian born painter Wosene Kosrof and his work. Wosene had been a friend of mine for many years and we had started to collect his work for some time. Whenever he and his wife Particia DiRubbo, my good friend from my days as a student in Berlin, visited us Wosene arrived with a roll of his newest paintings. Sometimes our dogs started barking furiously since they smelled the goat skin Wosene often uses as a canvas. Anyhow, TeleCulture had now a first chapter featuring its first artist... and it stayed that way for many years... unchanged and unattended... but running live on the internet.



During those years many visitors came to us by using search engines but also by being directed by links found on several web sites. Today, we have revamped TeleCulture as an general purpose art blog and we have removed the ancient pages with Wosene's work. Still, we continue to receive requests for Wosene's work in particular via outdated links in various web directories. So if you are looking for Wosene you'll be happy to know that he is doing fine, that he continues to paint magical pieces, and that he now has his own web site with an address that's really easy to remember: www.Wosene.com

See for yourself and find the new Wosene who has also added his mother's name Worke to his in the meantime. So it's Wosene Worke Kosrof now. If you are interested in Ethiopian art in general I encourage you to also visit the Debre Hayq Gallery of Ethiopian Art, expertly put together by art historian and critic Esseye Medhin. It's probably the most comprehensive web resource for Ethiopian art and certainly well maintained. You'll have to experiment a little bit to discover all of its content since the navigation takes some guess work but once you got it you are ready to see the richness of Ethiopian art, produced both at home and in the sizeable diaspora around the world.