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THE GODDESS COMPLEX - Aquatic Arabesque Painting

Diriye Osman

United Kingdom

Painting, Paper

Size: 70 W x 50 H x 2.5 D cm

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Painted over an intense three-week period, ‘Aquatic Arabesque,’ was originally commissioned by an Omani-English couple who were friends of Diriye. ‘The original intention was clichéd,’ he concedes. ‘I wanted to design a belly dancer holding maps of England and Oman in her hands.’ That concept soon g...

Year Created:

2011

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Painting, Paper

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

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70 W x 50 H x 2.5 D cm

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No

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Not Framed

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Certificate is Included

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THE GODDESS COMPLEX Culturally, Diriye Osman is Somali-British. Creatively, he's an artist-writer. Born in 1983 in Mogadishu, he was encouraged as a child to draw. When the civil war broke out in Somalia, Diriye and his family fled the country for Kenya. Traumatized by the experiences of war and immigration, the then eight-year-old Diriye found refuge in art. He would spend hours in solitude creating fairytale-like fantasies. These fantasies were influenced by Disney and Miyazaki filtered through the Vogue ideal: beautiful, alien-like sylphs with stylised physiques and catwalk stances. "˜It was only after I grew up that I realized that my entire creative life had always been about repression,' says Diriye. "˜I was a gay kid growing up in a society that had no tolerance for homosexuality. I sensed this hostility and it fed into my work. The women, who were goddess-like creatures, became the acceptable, alluring face of what was a dangerous transgression.' Even after coming to terms with his own sexuality and celebrating it in his fiction, Diriye didn't change his artistic subject matter. "˜Art is about compulsion,' he says. "˜These female characters are a huge part of my identity and I relish their strange beauty. As an artist, I hope there's enough mystery, detail and joie de vivre in this ongoing series for the casual observer and the seasoned aesthete.

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