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Untitled (LT001)
2016
from the Signature series 2016

Medium
synthetic polymer paint and black pencil on collage of cut printed paper on synthetic polymer paint on composition board
Measurements
84.8 × 85.1 cm
Inscription
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse c.: (…illeg.) (in Amharic script) / Ephrem Solomon Tegegn / woocut, engraving and mixed media (collage) / Signathur (…illeg.) (in Amharic script) / 2016 / 85 cm x 85 cm / (signature)
Accession Number
2016.699
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

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) Ethiopia (nation) heads (representations) patterns (design elements) red (colour) standing text (layout feature) women (female humans)
Movements
Contemporary (style of art)