Featured Artwork by Fikru Gebre Mariam

Fikru Gebre Mariam with 'Horizon of the New' left.

Fikru Gebre Mariam is an internationally acclaimed Ethiopian artist with a gallery in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is charismatic and passionate about his art and is certainly enjoying the fruits of his illustrious career thus far which has included periods of living, studying, and exhibiting in prestigious galleries abroad. His works are now collected and displayed in many private collections by art lovers around the world.
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​As a young boy he enjoyed painting so much that his parents enrolled him in the children's program at the School of Fine Arts in Addis Ababa. This led to him winning at an international children's painting exhibition in Beijing, China. It was at this point that art became his serious objective and he is grateful that his father, albeit hesitantly at first, supported his son's wishes to pursue art as a career.
 
Fikru Gebre Mariam is considered an important artist of his time as one who has brought modern abstract impressionism to Ethiopia. Esseye G. Medehin, artist and art historian, rates the significance of his art for Ethiopia on the same level as the art by Jackson Pollack for the USA.

Painting mainly large canvasses, some that will take up to a year to complete, Fikru often revisits his paintings changing them according to his mood or how he feels about the canvas when viewed a second time. He says, "I have an ongoing and constant dialogue with my paintings, they are like a diary of my life; the way I express my anger or my happiness is through my art."

Exhibit: FIKRU: National Museum of Ethiopia, 15 June - 14 July 2016

​Fikru Gebre Mariam donates 30% of the sales price of the 1st of these works to sell to Bioponic World Foundation. Subsequent artwork sale donations will be made to Bring Back Hope: the organization's PROFILE.​

Further ABOUT Fikru Gebre Mariam's philanthropy.

FIKRU Geberemariam SITE
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Above story text excerpted from an 'What's Out Addis' magazine article titled: Abstract Artist Fikru Gebre Mariam: Creating a Visual Language of Expressionism, July 2016, ​by Arabella Stewart
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FOR SALE: 30% commission on the first transaction is donated by the artist to Bioponic World Foundation, subsequent transactions are donated to Bringing Back Hope.


Fikru Gebre Mariam  
1973 - 
Abstract Expressionism, Ethiopian
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The Only Survival
Produced 2010

Oil on canvas
160 x 150cm, 5' 3" x 4' 11"
 
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Price: $50,000.

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FOR SALE: 30% commission on the first transaction is donated by the artist to Bioponic World Foundation, subsequent transactions are donated to Bringing Back Hope.


Fikru Gebre Mariam  
1973 - 
Abstract Expressionism, Ethiopian

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Horizon of the New
Produced 2014

Oil on canvas
200 x 175cm, 6' 6.75" x 5' 9"

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Price: $65,000.

Source: CNN, posted on March 16, 2016: Painter changing the lives of sick children through art from China, Paris to the U.S., this renowned Ethiopian artist keeps the roots of his culture deep within his art.

Fikru Gebre Mariam's studio in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia..

Fikru and Chapper at home.

This artist is a sponsor of Back to Hope and Bioponic World Foundation.
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For more artwork, commission artwork and general information:

Ingrid Bond
Bond Fine Art
505-470-7200

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