
Exhibition: 蟷螂子「KAIJU-目醒め-」
9s Gallery is pleased to present "KAIJU - Awakening", a solo exhibition by Mantisuko from February 14 (Fri) to February 22 (Sat), 2025. Mantis in tokyo #12 "Reconstruction of Beauty Paintings"...
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Painting (Watercolor painting)
Original Artwork
2021
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Unframed
The dream city 7
Watercolor on paper
57x35 cm.
In 2000 I left my homeland Iraq and the city of Baghdad and have lived in Berlin ever since. Before I left, I was very active culturally. Between 1980 and the end of the century, I participated in many joint exhibitions, held four solo exhibitions, and wrote and published many articles on literature and art in the newspapers. Baghdad was then the Mecca of cultural events. In the cafes, in the writers' union and also in the galleries, the intellectuals gathered and discussed recent activities.
I missed all of that when I came to Germany. At my age it was not easy to leave a cultural stage, that I know every corner very well and know most of the people who are involved in their activities, to start a new beginning.
I missed Baghdad and regretted its fate, especially because of the wars and destruction it went through.
In 2012 I felt able to paint a new generation of paintings in which I “rebuild” Baghdad and all the destructed cities.
Germany
The tree of letters
Inks, watercolour, and golden tissues on paper
28x35 cm.
The main part of this painting is a treetop-like mass consisting of overlapping writings from many texts by love poets. It is written using a specific Arabic font called ALDIWANI which is flexible and offers a lot of freedom.
The lower part of the composition shows the main trunk that holds the treetop. It's a piece of collage that I used gold tissues. parallel to this central trunk there are another two right and left to it. There are also three-square forms that contain the calligraphy of a different type of font.
The entire composition showed a balance between masses and spaces. The musical harmony was largely seen as a prerequisite for the creation of this piece.
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