Untitled (SS005)
2016
from the Signature series 2016
- Medium
- collage of cut printed red paper and newspaper on synthetic polymer paint on composition board
- Measurements
- 85.0 × 85.1 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in blue fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.c.: (…illeg.) (in Amharic script) / Eprem Solomon Tegegn / WOODCuT, COLLAGE AND MiXED MEDiA / 85 x 85 cm / SIGNATURE (SERiES) 2016
- Accession Number
- 2016.698
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation, 2017
© Ephrem Solomon Tegegn - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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These works from Ephrem Solomon’s Signature series show the artist’s bold graphic style and unusual medium, which combines hand-carved wood panels, collaged printed text and hand-colouring. Solomon’s images are inspired by the residents of his hometown Addis Ababa, where a large part of the population lives in difficult circumstances, with very few social, political or economic opportunities. As Solomon states, ‘My works portrays the distance between what the governed people need and want, and what the response is from the governors. I have tried to picture, as precisely as possible, the actual and innocent feeling of the governed’.
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Portraits
- Subjects (specific)
- Addis Ababa (inhabited place) circles (plane figures) Ethiopia (nation) fingerprints half figures men (male humans) profiles (figures) red (colour)
- Movements
- Contemporary (style of art)
