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拍品专文
Born in Um Al-Fahem to a Palestinian family, Asim Abu Shakra’s world is one of politics, identity and conflict. Despite passing away at just twenty-eight, Abu Shakra is considered to be one of the most brilliant artists of his time.
Asim Abu Shakra’s work can be described as being intimately sombre, reflecting dark domestic interiors and personal objects using black paint and wide vigorous brushstrokes. His potted cactuses placed in dim domestic interiors became a leading theme in his oeuvre. They symbolise all at once the uprootedness of the Palestinian people from their land and their realities of living in Israel, as well as his own awareness of his impending death from cancer. His domestic interiors therefore become a reflection of his harsh reality. They are no longer a ‘home and refuge’ as Kamal Boullata states, but ‘prisons and tombs’, where plants, people and their belongings are cut off from their community and native context. As seen in the present work depicting still life objects, the harshness of the interior and domestic objects is extended. The blue-green background and the black rapid and violent strokes almost carving into the paper, render these mundane objects with a charged reality that is representative of Abu Shakra’s oeuvre.
Asim Abu Shakra’s work can be described as being intimately sombre, reflecting dark domestic interiors and personal objects using black paint and wide vigorous brushstrokes. His potted cactuses placed in dim domestic interiors became a leading theme in his oeuvre. They symbolise all at once the uprootedness of the Palestinian people from their land and their realities of living in Israel, as well as his own awareness of his impending death from cancer. His domestic interiors therefore become a reflection of his harsh reality. They are no longer a ‘home and refuge’ as Kamal Boullata states, but ‘prisons and tombs’, where plants, people and their belongings are cut off from their community and native context. As seen in the present work depicting still life objects, the harshness of the interior and domestic objects is extended. The blue-green background and the black rapid and violent strokes almost carving into the paper, render these mundane objects with a charged reality that is representative of Abu Shakra’s oeuvre.