Aboudia “Nouchi Dream”
Ethan Cohen Fine Arts
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Aboudia’s multi-layered paintings offer a simultaneaity of images and meanings that conduct a continuous discourse with each other and with the viewer. In any glance the eye takes in one or other layer which is soon overcome by the next. We are aware of the vivid, brutal pageant of contemporary Africa weaving before us like a fabric of consciousness - soldiers, skulls, African fetishes, flashes of street life - expressed with a naif vitality. The surfaces deploy fragments, cuttings, from bits of comic strips, magazine ads, newspaper images, set into the paintings’ overall compositions so as to suggest current events cohering through the imagination into a troubled and troubling vision.
In the end though, the artist’s gift of cohesion transforms chaos into vitality, painful events to esthetic redemption, so one is able to see the whole as a changeable tide forever renewing hope.
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Schedule
from May 15, 2015 to June 20, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-05-15 from 19:00 to 22:00