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Pace of Life: Nigatu Tsehay

Past exhibition
13 May - 11 June 2022 London Gallery
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Installation view of Pace of Life. Courtesy of Lucy Emms.
Installation view of Pace of Life. Courtesy of Lucy Emms.

Addis Fine Art, London is pleased to present Pace of Life, an exhibition of new paintings by Nigatu Tsehay. The exhibition is a part of the 2022 edition of London Gallery Weekend. 

 

For Nigatu Tsehay, art is a fundamentally interrogative process. While it may not always yield definitive answers, painting allows him to grapple with important questions and to employ his own visual language as a means of reflection and communication. 

 

Rich with human form, Nigatu likens his canvases to a suddenly paused film scene - an instant in time bearing the weight of existence. His works are replete with distorted characters who frequently gaze in disparate directions, hands and feet punctuating a forested twist of limbs. An elegant sofa, a house plant, a tiled floor - these elements of the everyday become spliced and diced in an almost cubistic manner, and the contemporaneous portrayal of different perspectives invokes their participation in the passage of time. 

 

It is through capturing these specific moments that Nigatu seeks to explore universal themes of existence and human experience, blending the precise with the abstract to create surrealistic realms which invite his audience to participate in the essential act of inquiry. 

 

Private View - Thursday 12 May 6 - 9 pm

In Conversation: Nigatu Tsehay - Friday 13 May 6 - 7 pm (in gallery & IG Live)

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Works
  • Nigatu Tsehay, Pace of Time IX, 2021
    Nigatu Tsehay, Pace of Time IX, 2021
  • Nigatu Tsehay, Pace of Life VII, 2021
    Nigatu Tsehay, Pace of Life VII, 2021
  • Nigatu Tsehay, Will You Come Back?, 2022
    Nigatu Tsehay, Will You Come Back?, 2022
  • Nigatu Tsehay, Hidden Hands, 2022
    Nigatu Tsehay, Hidden Hands, 2022
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  • Nigatu Tsehay, Installation Image, 2022, Courtesy of the artist and Addis Fine Art

    FULL PUBLIC PROGRAMME JUST ANNOUNCED FOR LONDON GALLERY WEEKEND 2022

    Mark Westall, FAD, May 6, 2022
Publications
  • Nigatu Tsehay

    Nigatu Tsehay

    Pace of Life, 2022 Softback 28 pages
    Publisher: Addis Fine Art
    Dimensions: 21 x 14.8 cm
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Videos
  • Pace of Life | Nigatu Tsehay

    Pace of Life | Nigatu Tsehay

    Nigatu Tsehay discusses the inspirations behind his solo exhibition, Pace of Life, at Addis Fine Art, London. Read more

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