Tesfaye Urgessa Explained

Tesfaye Urgessa
Native Name:ተስፋዬ ገለታ ኡርጌሳ
Native Name Lang:am
Birth Place:Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Education:Allé School of Fine Arts and Design, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (MA)
Occupation:Visual artist
Known For:Painting

Tesfaye Geleta Urgessa (born 1983;) is an Ethiopian-born painter. He is from Addis Ababa, and has been based in Germany since 2009.[1]

Career

Tesfaye Urgessa was born in 1983 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.[2] He studied under Mezgebu Tessema, Tadesse Mesfin, and Bisrat Shibabaw in Ethiopia. He graduated from the Allé School of Fine Arts and Design in Addis Ababa in 2006; and received a M.A. degree in 2014 from the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart in Stuttgart, Germany.[3]

Urgessa was taught by professors who had studied art in Russia in the 1970s and 1980s, when the dominant art movement was socialist realism.[4] Their focus was on the study of anatomy, which influenced Urgessa’s style.

At this time, through internet research, Urgessa's practice was inspired by prominent artists in Europe including Picasso, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon.

Themes

Tesfaye Urgessa’s images have themes of racism, class, policy brutality, injustice in politics and power. He combines traditional figuration with Ethiopian iconography, Cubism, and 1980s German Neo-expressionism.[5]

Exhibitions

Urgessa exhibited in "Oltre/Beyond" at The Uffizi Gallerie in Florence in 2018,[6] and again in 2021.[7] The Uffizi also hosts his work in its permanent collection, and "Von Denen Die Auszogen" at State Galerie Villa Streccius, in Landau Germany in 2019.[5]

Urgessa will represent Ethiopia at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2024, the first time that the country will be participating with a national pavilion.[8]

Exhibitions

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Valentine . Victoria L. . 24 May 2020 . When He is Not in His Painting Studio, Tadesse Mesfin is Training the Next Generation of Ethiopian Artists . 2021-07-11 . Culture Type . en-US.
  2. Web site: 5 June 2021 . Saatchi Yates open a solo show of new paintings by Tesfaye Urgessa . 2024-03-20 . ArtDaily.cc . English.
  3. Web site: . Tesfaye Urgessa - Overview . 2021-07-11 . Newchild . en.
  4. Web site: Tesfaye Urgessa . 2021-07-11 . Saatchi Yates. .
  5. Web site: The Bodies That Matter - The Figuration of Tesfaye Urgesse Widewalls. 2021-07-11. www.widewalls.ch. en.
  6. Web site: Firenze. A Palazzo Pitti le opere di Tesfaye Urgessa . https://web.archive.org/web/20181223105718/https://artemagazine.it/mostre/item/8304-firenze-a-palazzo-pitti-le-opere-di-tesfaye-urgessa . 23 December 2018 . 2021-07-11 . ArteMagazine.it . it-it.
  7. Web site: Julia Buckley. One of Italy's most famous sites just reopened with a striking change. 2021-07-11. CNN. en.
  8. Web site: Lawson-Tancred . Jo . 2024-02-15 . Ethiopia Names Artist for Its First-Ever National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale . 2024-03-20 . . en-US.
  9. Web site: . 2. Führung mit dem Kurator durch "25 - 25 - 25" . 2021-07-31 . Sympra . de-DE.
  10. Web site: . Tesfaye Urgessa . 2021-07-31 . Evelyn Drewes Galerie.
  11. Web site: Ethiopia Today . 2021-07-31 . Kunststation Kleinsassen . de.
  12. Web site: Tesfaye Urgessa: "Auszeit" . 2021-07-31 . Galerieverein Wendlingen . de.
  13. Web site: Tesfaye Urgessa "free fall". 2021-07-31. kunstaspekte.de. de.
  14. Web site: Vergangene Ausstellungen. 2021-07-31. de-DE.
  15. Web site: Tesfaye Urgessa. Beyond . 2021-07-31 . Uffizi Galleries . en.
  16. News: Pogrebin . Robin . January 31, 2022 . Uffizi Gallery, Bastion of Tradition, Evolves (Slowly) With the Times . . 0362-4331.
  17. Web site: . Archiv - Galerie Tobias Schrade . 2021-07-31 . www.galerie-tobias-schrade.de.
  18. Web site: No Country for Young Men 30 December 2019 - 15 February 2020. 2021-07-31. Addis Fine Art. en.
  19. Web site: Meghoo . Desta . 23 December 2019 . Where is the Country for Young Men? . 2021-07-31 . Capital Newspaper . en.
  20. Web site: 2014-07-13. Rundgang 2014: Die Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger.

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