Saturday, January 31, 2009

painting - Tunisia

Abderrazak Sahli :- TUNISIA

Born in Hammamet in 1940. Works and lives in Tunisia.

Sahli's compositions, some of which are on very larg scale, seem to be retrieved from a swarm of figures. His painting reacts to a variety of stimuli, mixing unconscious elements with what is conscious, vigorous and spontaneous. His different surfaces, colours and themes are a synthesis between minimalism conceptual art, new realism and free figuration.

Rose Issa
Catalogue of the exhibition"Bakou"
Leiton House Museum, London


Rafik Kamel :- TUNISIA

Born in Tunis in 1944. Works and lives in Tunisia.

Rafik Kamel belongs to the second generation of Tunisian painters. He is an abstract painter , who moves with ease between figuration and abstraction ,and shows that there is no inherent contradiction or real seperation between the two. He uses biological or molecular forms in subtle colours that suggest an inner reality not visible to the naked eye.

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