Thursday, December 5, 2024

Exhibition on migration opens tomorrow

A new solo exhibition is to be opened at the Alliance Ethio-Francis on March 9, 2020. The exhibition is hosted by Tewodrose Hagos, which show cases the current issue of migration depicting a human tragedy.
The exhibition will be opened on Monday 6pm displaying paintings expressing the never ending situation of migration that is becoming crises of humanity, risk thousand lives of migrants from Africa and Asia on the desperate journey.
“The first inspiration happened when I saw the shocking news about the body of a Syrian boy found lying face-down on a beach near a resort in Greece. From that moment on, I couldn’t stop thinking about this “Desperate journey. Then I started to research further about this issue.” Tewodros added “for how much longer should we watch this human tragedy? Are we trying enough to change this problem from its root? Or are we just getting used to it? What is going on behind all these atrocities?”
The exhibition tries to embed those questions. The exhibition aims to reexamine this never ending situation that is becoming acceptable and wishes to challenge the viewers to raise their concern and act upon it in their own way.
Tewodros Hagos was born in 1974 in Addis Ababa. He has managed to establish a distinct style in portraiture in Ethiopian painters of his generation. His work has been presented at numerous solo exhibitions in Addis Ababa, as well as in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and USA.

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