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October 2010
ET4U's ANNUAL summer Banner Exhibition on Nees, Denmark opened the season's first show with a solo by Iraqi/Swedish artist Modhir Ahmed. The successful kick-off was attended by art lovers within village and some drove from the neighboring Nordic region.
The concept of the drive-thru, walk-along gallery, by director/curator of ET4U Gallery, Klavs Weiss and Karen Havskov Jensen is now on its third successful year and has drawn a number of drive by tourism to the area of Nees. Modhir Ahmed's banners were on display until August 27, 2010.
The concept of the drive-thru, walk-along gallery, by director/curator of ET4U Gallery, Klavs Weiss and Karen Havskov Jensen is now on its third successful year and has drawn a number of drive by tourism to the area of Nees. Modhir Ahmed's banners were on display until August 27, 2010.
About Modhir Ahmed
Iraqi-Swedish artist Modhir Ahmed's work is easily recognised for his transposition of utilitarian materials that stretches the contextual boundaries of art to accommodate conceptual formulas in contemporary printmaking, painting, digital art and installation.
Modhir Ahmed first gained international recognition in the early 90s for providing Sweden's answer to visual arts as he represented his host country with flying colours in international competitions in graphic arts.
Given the generous, sublime pictorial ambition and intelligent nature of his art, so clearly demonstrated on his first solo show in Sweden at The Museum of Art, Gothenburg in 1992, he achieved a path to get through the superficiality of emotive painting to something more direct and spontaneous.
His artistic evolution is impossible to understand without taking to account the three countries where he lived and studied arts, the international awards he won, literatures written about him and the many works of art this Alfred Noble art scholar has produced.
Crucial to Modhir's best work is the graphic immediacy, a reliance on painting and a mastery of the mediums, whether it be acrylic, oil crayons or pencil on top of the under laying wood-cut. A distinctive image hybrid he has cultivated for a decade maintaining a coherent sense of personal identity.
With a subtle use of Neo-plasticist compositional ploys along with images, he creates a pulse of colour - a modernist reliance on fixed elements - rectangles of pure colour resulting in a flatland of geometric form.
The lavish source of complexity in Modhir’s multi-medium painting is a delicate balance between recognition and un-recognition, figuration and abstraction - a convergence of fascinating beautiful irresolvable elements with a harmonious interplay of components that creates a tightly structured yet eternally restless painting - a dissonance that only heightens the painting's appeal.
Iraqi-Swedish artist Modhir Ahmed's work is easily recognised for his transposition of utilitarian materials that stretches the contextual boundaries of art to accommodate conceptual formulas in contemporary printmaking, painting, digital art and installation.
Modhir Ahmed first gained international recognition in the early 90s for providing Sweden's answer to visual arts as he represented his host country with flying colours in international competitions in graphic arts.
Given the generous, sublime pictorial ambition and intelligent nature of his art, so clearly demonstrated on his first solo show in Sweden at The Museum of Art, Gothenburg in 1992, he achieved a path to get through the superficiality of emotive painting to something more direct and spontaneous.
His artistic evolution is impossible to understand without taking to account the three countries where he lived and studied arts, the international awards he won, literatures written about him and the many works of art this Alfred Noble art scholar has produced.
Crucial to Modhir's best work is the graphic immediacy, a reliance on painting and a mastery of the mediums, whether it be acrylic, oil crayons or pencil on top of the under laying wood-cut. A distinctive image hybrid he has cultivated for a decade maintaining a coherent sense of personal identity.
With a subtle use of Neo-plasticist compositional ploys along with images, he creates a pulse of colour - a modernist reliance on fixed elements - rectangles of pure colour resulting in a flatland of geometric form.
The lavish source of complexity in Modhir’s multi-medium painting is a delicate balance between recognition and un-recognition, figuration and abstraction - a convergence of fascinating beautiful irresolvable elements with a harmonious interplay of components that creates a tightly structured yet eternally restless painting - a dissonance that only heightens the painting's appeal.
Modhir Ahmed
(Iraq / Sweden)
ET4U Banner exhibition
Nees-Skalstrup 2010
30th July
(Iraq / Sweden)
ET4U Banner exhibition
Nees-Skalstrup 2010
30th July
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