Tegene Kunbi: Bending Back
STANDING PINE Nagoya will hold a solo exhibition entitled 鈥淏ending Back鈥� by Ethiopian painter Tegene Kunbi. In his first solo exhibition in Asia, the artist presents his latest creations, specially created for this unique occasion.
Tegene Kunbi was born in 1980 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and currently living and working in Berlin, Germany. He completed a Painting and Art Education degree at the Fine Arts School at the University of Addis Abeba in 2004 and went on to teach at Kotebe College Academy. With the help of the prestigious DAAD scholarship, he left Ethiopia in 2008 to study at the Universit盲t der K眉nste Berlin, where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts in 2011. He now works in Berlin and has been part of multiple group and solo exhibitions in Germany and abroad as well as collaborative international projects and workshops, for example in Paris, Casablanca, New York, Nairobi, Nouakchott, and Amsterdam. Tegene is also the winner of the prestigious award Grand Prix L茅opold S茅dar Senghor at Dak鈥橝rt Biennale 2022.
Tegene creates compositions of different geometric shapes and colors, which express his personal vision of his native landscape, fabrics, clothes, and wall paintings. Oil and textile combine to create surfaces of vibrant textures and layers of color. A dominant feature in his works is its use of strident and assertive colors. The abstract vertical and horizontal stripes and blocks of color in Kunbi鈥檚 paintings nonetheless bear close affinities to the brilliant hues of Ethiopian heritage in Orthodox or Coptic manuscripts, murals and various patterned textiles.
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STANDING PINE Nagoya will hold a solo exhibition entitled 鈥淏ending Back鈥� by Ethiopian painter Tegene Kunbi. In his first solo exhibition in Asia, the artist presents his latest creations, specially created for this unique occasion.
Tegene Kunbi was born in 1980 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and currently living and working in Berlin, Germany. He completed a Painting and Art Education degree at the Fine Arts School at the University of Addis Abeba in 2004 and went on to teach at Kotebe College Academy. With the help of the prestigious DAAD scholarship, he left Ethiopia in 2008 to study at the Universit盲t der K眉nste Berlin, where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts in 2011. He now works in Berlin and has been part of multiple group and solo exhibitions in Germany and abroad as well as collaborative international projects and workshops, for example in Paris, Casablanca, New York, Nairobi, Nouakchott, and Amsterdam. Tegene is also the winner of the prestigious award Grand Prix L茅opold S茅dar Senghor at Dak鈥橝rt Biennale 2022.
Tegene creates compositions of different geometric shapes and colors, which express his personal vision of his native landscape, fabrics, clothes, and wall paintings. Oil and textile combine to create surfaces of vibrant textures and layers of color. A dominant feature in his works is its use of strident and assertive colors. The abstract vertical and horizontal stripes and blocks of color in Kunbi鈥檚 paintings nonetheless bear close affinities to the brilliant hues of Ethiopian heritage in Orthodox or Coptic manuscripts, murals and various patterned textiles.
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