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