Larry Otoo - The Black Stars of Ghana - Art District

In school you learn that certain colours do not agree when they come together. But Larry Otoo has come to realize very soon after leaving school that this is “a total lie“. Certain colours rather attract each other and instead of repelling each other they harmonize. Listening to Larry Otoo speaking with Safia Dickersbach in his artist studio, it very quickly becomes clear that coloration and the careful, but sometimes bold combination of colours have a special relevance for Larry Otoo’s artistic oeuvre. Larry Otoo was born in 1956. Already his art teacher at secondary school foretold him that his talent would sometime allow him to pursue art up to a very high level. Only his father, an economist, was not enthusiastic about such plans and wanted him to study economics. But Larry Otoo bypassed his father and applied to study art at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi. There at the College of Art he was graduated in 1981 as a painter and also with a master’s