Kakafian Ardash - Artist Info

About Kakafian Ardash

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Ardash Kakafian
  • Biography

    Kakafia Azdashis Ardash was born in Mosul, Iraq in 1941 and died in 1999.

    Ardash Kakafian Hwas an instrumental member of the Baghdad Modern Art Group and trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.

    Kakafian was renowned for the breadth of his oeuvre, exploring various art styles and mediums, including Chinese inkwork, expressionism, miniatures, and avant-garde political propaganda posters.

    Ardash produced work that explored trauma, identity, and the human condition. Kakafian is described as an "explorer of a self-diaspora" and his oeuvre as "an eloquent mesh of personal architecture and poetry."

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