HUSSEIN SALIM’S Garden of Carnal Delights Tours to Cape Town www.themelrosegallery.com
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he Melrose Gallery is pleased to present ‘Garden of Carnal Delight’ in Cape Town following on from a well-received run in Johannesburg. The exhibition will feature several of Hussein Salim’s artworks that were originally presented together with new works created in 2022. The exhibition opens to the public on 5 May and runs until 3 July 2022 at our space in the One & Only in the V & A Waterfront. Hussein Salim’s paintings are a dialogue between different cultures that represent his spirit articulated through art as a tool that both affects and initiates the conversation. Salim left his home country of Sudan as a refugee, and his works awaken in us an appreciation of our differences and diverse reactions, but bring us back to the shared foundation of mankind. A sense of displacement and a longing to return to his country has imbued his artworks with a sense of nostalgia. His richly textured canvases employ an extravagant layering technique to create a dense impasto feel, using personal symbolism that is both ancient and contemporary. Painting is an act of life not separated in its association with my self-reflection, which takes its own momentum and material. This way I create my identity as I work technically while trying to draw. I want my inner impressionist to constantly create a painting with me, depending on the cognitive and aesthetic space. – Hussein Salim Adam & Eve, 2021 Acrylic on canvas 150 x 150 cm
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