Galerie Claude Lemand

PORTRAITS OF THE NON-EXISTENT-BIRD - HUSSEIN TAÏ.

Hussein Al-Taï is born in 1966 in Iraq. Studies and diploma at the Faculty of Arts in Baghdad (1985-1992). He moved to Denmark in 2001. Painter, print­maker and excel­lent book artist.

“ In terms of form and rep­re­sen­ta­tion, this Portrait of The-Non-Existent-Bird freed me from the usual image of the bird. I found myself facing myself. I asked myself many ques­tions. Images and sto­ries of Mesopotamian civ­i­liza­tions have risen to my con­scious­ness; my per­sonal imag­i­na­tion was also acti­vated.

This bird rep­re­sents paci­fist human per­sons; they are sad and living on the fringes of their society. This bird is migrating and he wishes to fly high and far, to settle in a place other than his country of origin. My com­po­si­tions are a syn­thesis of sub­lim­inal images, col­lages, draw­ings and paint­ings. My artist’s book is like the journal of my rela­tion­ships with this Bird-Who-Does-Not-Exist.

My suit­case-bird is the por­trait of the emi­grant-bird who puts in his suit­case what is most pre­cious; it is not a cage in which the bird-man is deprived of freedom, but the suit­case is the symbol of migra­tion, freedom and travel to a better world.” (Hussein Taï, Copenhagen, March 2014).