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Austria
Drawing, Acrylic on Paper
Size: 17.3 W x 21.3 H x 1 D in
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In my portraits, I combine photorealistic drawing in charcoal with more abstract painting in acrylics and acrylic inks. "Nwabisa" is one of the works from my recent project "Mzansi", which was exhibited in Krems, Lower Austria. "Mzansi" is an informal name for South Africa in Xhosa language as the project is devoted to South African women of Xhosa and Zulu descent. The project started spontaneously after my Xhosa friend asked me to draw her. I draw women simply because I love women but the task of depicting African women is particularly challenging and satisfying at the same time. Since then I have been depicting her, her female friends and relatives. "Mzansi" is a tribute to the beauty of Xhosa and Zulu women. Yet it also attempts to create a narrative in every portrait as each of these young women carries her own story of overcoming family expectations and socio-cultural constraints on her way to self-sufficiency and independence. Nwabisa, in particular, captivated me by the tenderness and confidence in her look, which, I hope, I managed to convey in my artwork.
Drawing:Acrylic on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:17.3 W x 21.3 H x 1 D in
Frame:Other
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Austria
I am an artist, designer, and ex-philosopher. My art follows two strands: traditional visual art and new media art that engages with analytic philosophy or complements scientific research. My visual artwork focuses predominantly on the articulation of female desire within the traditional genre of portraiture, as well as on a cognitive appropriation of the city and the expression of political, cultural and personal narratives in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century residential architecture in Austria and Hungary. I also do landscape painting. Currently, I work and live between Budapest and Krems, Austria.
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