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| Tea by Mulugeta Tafesse When Words Fail Paintings by Mulugeta Tafesse Closes: July 7, 2012 Hours: Tues to Fri 10:00 to 6:00; Sat 11:00 to 5:00 Address: 49 Geary Street Suite 235 San Francisco, CA 94108 Tel: 415.513.5154 |
Mulugeta Tafesse's sparsely colored canvases speak in a quiet voice. They convey an sense of longing which words cannot. With a moldy pastel palette he creates figurative works which seem slightly out of focus as if seen through gauze or reflecting a faded memory. His subjects are commonplace--a town square, a bicycle, a passenger seen through a windshield. His palette makes them wistful. Tafesse's use of space and light contribute to the emotional impact of his canvases. In Whisper the closeness of his subjects draws the viewer in to their intimate conversation. Stolen light in Mulugeta Tafesse's Fog gives the canvas that confusing feeling of dense fog on a strange street. The half missing face in Tea tells more than half a story. Tafesse's work is unselfconscious; he makes the viewer feel part of the process--like an onlooker in the studio watching over Tafesse's shoulder After completing his undergraduate degree in painting at the School of Arts and Design in Addis Ababa, Tafesse continued his studies in Sophia, Bulgaria, Antwerp, Belgium and then Tenerife, Spain. Throughout his life he has taught and lectured at various fine art institutions. While he is endlessly peripatetic, Tafesse has established a home base, setting up his studio in Belgium. |
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