Description
Acrylic on canvas, Leykun Girma, (Ethiopian, born 1981)
“The Warriors”, 2014
30 x 30 cm
Signed ‘Leykun (front)
Provenance: direct from artist
He chooses a woman to describe some idea of strength . He uses a women to express the nature of balance . He also uses yellowish color to represent there bases of life it men’s yellow color soil it is the organic item to prepare their daily crafts. Both women and colors depict there strength . We often do not see the presence and equality of those women in our society. Leykun also question their power , listened by a society etc… those women main problem are how they perceive power and their enormous number.
Leykun is inspired by the society and feelings concerning human and natural life in his birth place. There are two condition in the place where He was born, the fundamental request of social thinking and the contrast of between the gender. He believes that to have a good variety we have to chose both colors of life then we harmonized and balanced. Sometimes He paints on themes that reflect on his personal life experiences, things that happen to him in the past and his future vision. Painting to him is like writing a diary .He has often felt torn between what feels like a number of driving personalities. Although his work could almost always be described as objective or realistic, his aims never stay fixed to any particular point on a bored spectrum of intent.
Sometimes Leykun feels a strong need to make painting that are unapologetically descriptive of what is immediately around him; view of the city, the people He knows, familiar hallways and spaces, or elements of nature that appeal to him. Other times, his work depicts a different kind of reality : one that is highly fictitious and fee of limitations of the motivations might come from outside his surrounding . People, places, and objects, becoming reflect deeper social and personal narratives. Common to various types of work He engages in, is a deep commitment to the traditions of descriptive painting. In a world where newness has become a value in and of itself, He is more moved by the compliment that what He is doing technically and feels like something from the past , while embodying something that is currently relevant.
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