NEDIM KUFI

www.2nedim.com
www.daftar.nl

An Iraqi Born Dutch nationality conceptual artist Nedim Kufi works and lives in the Netherlands, seriously playing with mixed media and audiovisual new media as well, to create expressions of tumultuous emotions, and a journey to a world of struggle against emotional weakness. Trying to rebuild the damage, He uses almost everything as possible material in his Artwork, paper, flowers, strings, soil, henna, dyes and even dirt, and the most of them are fragile, for instance he uses brooms to paint and touch up his work. Any of such alternative tools are expectable. He started off by studying print making or particular etching in Iraq. By mere chance, he got into sculpting field then moved to Holland to study graphic design.
Over the years, a close relationship developed between the disciplines of painting, etching, sculpture, and design. I am supposed to be a painter, but the various Dutch instructors who taught me in HKU School told me that I had new blood, because a fine artist and from another background moving into graphic design has a broader foundation and a greater ability to absorb new things in a different way. However, as I interweaved my painting and design skills, I produced something
which was new to them, and I capitalized on that and developed it.

Later he boycotted painting for about two years 2001-2002, perhaps because the sense of excitement disappeared from it. He developed a resentment of the painter's character because of the way it enforced itself on public vision. Many painters derive their authority from their artistic license, creating an artificial and greatly exaggerated halo around themselves. However, when He traveled he was able to see materials that I already possessed in clearer detail. Many people do not understand or recognized the material they already have or use.