KURDISH ARTIST MADHAT KAKEI
EXHIBITS NEW PAINTINGS AT THE KURDISH
LIBRARY
144 Underhill
Avenue
in Prospect Heights,
Brooklyn
OCTOBER 6 -21, 2005
Hours: Mon-Fri & Sun, 1pm to 5pm.
Closed Saturday
For his second show at the Museum, Madhat Kakei is showing
recent works from an ongoing series of layered acrylics on canvas.
His first show at the Library, "A Kurd's-Eye View," featured
large black and white woodcuts. Some of these will also be on display.
Kakei's work has been widely shown internationally, including
in Finland, Germany, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Poland, the United States and Kirkuk,
Kurdistan. Kakei lives in Sweden. He will be in Brooklyn for the duration
of the exhibit.
A younger Madhat Kakei at work in his studio, during
studies in Madrid at Belles Artes San Fernando, 1977.
From the time the boy Madhat Kakei met a traveling painter
on a mountain path in his childhood home in northern Iraq, he was drawn to the
world of art. Since the late 1980s, Kakei has worked in a monochrome-like,
non-objective style. Figurative elements and realistic depictions of objects are
gone, replaced by a visionary realism. Using painted acrylic stratums of various
overlaid colors to build complex, textured visual fields with sculptural
aspects, Kakei offers the viewer a world in which to wander. These works are
rich, poetic fields of possibility, explosive with universal associations and
implications with the power to stir the soul deeply. The more one looks, the
more one finds, sees, and discovers.
- Mary Ann Lynch, curator, 2005.
Museum hours are Monday through Thursday & Sunday 1-5 p.m. and by appointment. Special
arrangements can be made to accommodate visiting scholars.
