Signs: Contemporary Arab Art Sundaram Tagore Gallery New York City, NYUnited States
mixed media on canvas,480x350cm
mixed media on canvas,480x350cm
mixed media on canvas,480x350cm
artist, Georges Fikry Ibrahim, has developeda 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 andarticles from the world of objects are made so abstract thatthe scenes can only be guessed at. Thus only a second glancereveals the dancing world in his work “The Nubian Dance”,or the rural scenes of “The Farmer” and “The Carriage of theFarmer”. The dominating colors, like red and fuchsia in hispaintings, are often so luminous that they very aptly capturethe feeling of being alive, of dancing and rejoicin