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Madhat Kakei
Solo Exhibition
Solo Exhibition
Gallery KonstnärsHuset
Stockholm
17 September - 5 October
Stockholm
17 September - 5 October
2002-No8-34x34
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2002-No11-34x34
2002-No24-34x34
Madhat paints with the palet-knife, as did the Swedish August Strindberg, who was of the opinion that a painting should be finished in two or three hours because inspiration never lasts longer. When Strindberg painted it could compare to a sexual drive. Kakei, however, paints his works in several layers that in the end segments an index of color along the edge, recollecting the time (lost) since the process started. Thus, there is a lot of Western thinking in Kakei's paintings. But Madhat Kakei's world seems deeper and more Oriental.
They don't want to be real paintings, those wordless messengers where the painter phrases a sentence in light that opens up to a mysterious universe. If it isn't the desert light, or the caligraphy of the palet-knife, that is being investigated, then it is surely the method of Strindberg being examined.
Kakei's paintings are not scientific like Bauhaus-art, nor are they familiar with the higher spheres of geometry. Maybe it is precisely their lack of orientation and restless nomadic desire for change, that gives them the ability to catch your attention in the middle of a noisy world. Madhat Kakei´s paintings are, in short, poetic like Arabian verse.
Excerpt from the review by Erik Steffensen, Artist, Professor, Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen.
They don't want to be real paintings, those wordless messengers where the painter phrases a sentence in light that opens up to a mysterious universe. If it isn't the desert light, or the caligraphy of the palet-knife, that is being investigated, then it is surely the method of Strindberg being examined.
Kakei's paintings are not scientific like Bauhaus-art, nor are they familiar with the higher spheres of geometry. Maybe it is precisely their lack of orientation and restless nomadic desire for change, that gives them the ability to catch your attention in the middle of a noisy world. Madhat Kakei´s paintings are, in short, poetic like Arabian verse.
Excerpt from the review by Erik Steffensen, Artist, Professor, Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen.
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