Ten African artists to look out for theguardian/world/2014/mar/26/ten-african-artists-to-look-out-for Julie Mehretu, Ethiopia A key young African artist with a growing international exposure, Julie Mehretu’s large paintings draw on elements of aerial mapping and architecture. With an underlying calligraphic complexity, her energetic pieces represent accelerated urban growth, and densely populated city environments and social networks of the 21st century. Mehretu creates each painting by adding consecutive thin layers of acrylic paint on canvas and then finishing it off with delicate superimposed marks and patterns using pencil, pen, ink and streams of paint. She portrays a compression of time, space and place, independent of historical significance. From constructivism and geometric abstraction to futurism, Mehretu describes her paintings as story maps of no location.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:18:42 +0000
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