Signs: Contemporary Arab Art Sundaram Tagore Gallery New York City, NYUnited States
Signs: Contemporary Arab Art Sundaram Tagore Gallery New York
Signs: Contemporary Arab Art Sundaram Tagore Gallery New York
Signs: Contemporary Arab Art Sundaram Tagore Gallery New York
Signs: Contemporary Arab Art Sundaram Tagore Gallery New York
Signs: Contemporary Arab Art Sundaram Tagore Gallery New York
Signs: Contemporary Arab Art Sundaram Tagore Gallery New York
artist, Georges Fikry Ibrahim, has developed a special technique for using collage in his large-scale works. Many layers of different kinds of paper are placed on a support, painted, and often decorated in gold leaf. Figures and articles from the world of objects are made so abstract that the scenes can only be guessed at. Thus only a second glance reveals the dancing world in his work “The Nubian Dance”, or the rural scenes of “The Farmer” and “The Carriage of the Farmer”. The dominating colors, like red and fuchsia in his paintings, are often so luminous that they very aptly capture the feeling of being alive, of dancing and rejoicin