MS01.01.03 - Box 01 - Folder 27 - Boghossian, Skunder - Essays, 1980, [undated], Part 1

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Skunder/ b (1937)

Interview - :3200 - 16th Street #516 1961 -- first time here / show at Phelps-Stokes -- 7

Drawing at an early age in Paris. Actions of the scene reflecting the resistance Spirit / occupied -- went to Paris in 1955 after receiving a scholarship -- (Silver Medal) (Tutored by two Canadian painters -- one traditional -- other abstract) -- Brought back new thoughts and new ideas reflecting achievements from Paris --.....

Early reflections: Childhood - La Labella putting these forms together -- "home echoes systematically throughout" -- These references are seen in the artist's life. No real interference which pull him away from these visions --. Teaching important to his development -- / -- Impossible to deal with both / must maintain some of the old life style -- keeping alive that spark of creativity which reflects the continuous flow of ideas from an ancient culture -- Did not need the changes -- Having been around those who invented these forms of Expressionism in Paris; The artist felt no need to imitate them he

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knew Giamocometti - "swept this studio everyday". Socializing with him It is for the artist a vocabulary which is not alien to his cultural orientation. The continuous change has been with him since Nouisel series in Paris. Mythology of the Dogon (African) in - Cosmological - exoteric - Geometrical Configuration / Life - Happiness - family / Imparting to others and sharing what he has learned from the great cultures - Music was very important / Social Drawing - Conditions / "Shoe Shine Boy" / versa the model / New Directions - 1983 October) Works completely socialized and politicized. Symbols: Ornamentation - continuous - for him do not recreate Christian Symbolizm but is a self portrait - Search vines - interwoven / Much of this eminates from nature - Metamorphis yet a completely rebirth (Birth) Rebirth - Cosmology - Matta influence / connections attracted him - "Never felt a liking for Picasso" (Iberia (?) from Brazil) ... Wifredo Lam - yes - but not Picasso - Picasso's animalistic forms are right out of Lam". Skunder

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Tiberio T.- be- rio (Brazilian artist) He and Sakoto must have come to Paris in the 40s. (Self-portrait) Storytelling of the icon - prayer that cleanses the soul - relieves one of the visions that torment the soul _ _ His students have absorbed this meaning - Things come from the outside and enter the story (?) from the outside world - enter an unintentional phase - Meaning/Barred in - yet protected - opening experience - (?) self must come out - physical Spiritual mental - Feelings that have to come out are rebirth (?) of these forms through the plastic imposition of the spiritual over a present form or situation - it all relates to the artist - a self contained feeling relating culturally to new ways of working, seeing and feeling. It all transcends the ovious (?) religous surface of seeing and creates a meaning - organic movement - object - parchment is still living parchment from Ethiopia - Bark Cloth from Uganda - the associations - the elements - that come forth - his formation was due to - Europe, and America - Europe in the 50s America in the 60s - living in

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in a black community and the richness of life the - Being in the South in Tuskegee A.B. Spellman, Marion Brown, Kofi Bailey - Pan- Africanism - The Neo-African spirit reborn in the eyes of the Afro-American - - Langston Huges meeting him in Paris - . 67 Biennala (1970s)

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[top margin] [strikethrough: Perhaps] This chain of events that stir our imagination [strikethrough: here] in Skunder's work is [strikethrough: ?] aided by the power of expressionistic forms that reveal playful geometrical configurations moving about in space as though they were guided by a cosmological force. Many of the artists early works contain those elements that plainly [strikethrough: connect] show his vast knowledge of the history of the [strikethrough: vision] language of visual form in Ancient Africa combining the ^ ancient calligraphy of [?] Scholars with the iconography of Byzantine inspired artist of the Christian [strikethrough: Era] whose work illuminated the Italy Word[?].

Seeing beyond the shape of things and feeling the space in which [strikethrough: an artist] one creates is not the hallmark of everyone who [strikethrough: designates] calls himself an artist. But Skunder Boghossian, an African Artist frm Addis Ababa, sees not only the shape of things around them [strikethrough: things] and integrates form and content in a manner [strikethrough: which] so as to give a ^ special meaning to the temporal order to [strikethrough: of those for] things his paintings [strikethrough: possess [?] perceive].

Upon examining the shape of objects, conventional forms and symbollic content in Skunder's work, one is attracted to the inventive process by which the artist shronds [strikethrough: things] in a secret language of signs and symbols. This language [strikethrough: that] seems at once mysterious and [strikethrough: yet] familiar. He asks [strikethrough: the question] How is it that [strikethrough: I am] we are drawn to the intricate meaning of what have been called dream forms in Skunders work? [strikethrough: skill?] These forms seemingly are so consistently communicative in a ^ very general way. Yet evasive in there power to be generalized. Perhaps the chain of events [strikethrough: [?]] that stir our imagination here is helped by the [strikethrough: whole cinematic experience] power of these expressionistic form to [strikethrough: of childhood memories: memories] : ^ memories from [strikethrough: of] an Ancient people whose [strikethrough: legendary] historical and cultural existance bridge the gap between the legend of [strikethrough: ancien] prehistoric man and the rich cultural finds of the [strikethrough: most ancient of all human] modern world that ignite these dreams [strikethrough: cultures]. Ethiopia [strikethrough: that] is the thoughts to be the ancient birthsphere[?] of modern man. It was in Ethopia where, "according to the ancient Greeks, lived geniuses with burnt faces " [strikethrough: lived] ", [strikethrough: [?]] sparked the

[left margin] Iconographic Dreams reveals Skunder's

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