The Pause

Ali Zülfikar basically uses only wool colours and developed self-made vegetable dyes for his paintings because of the particularly bright color and because these pigments contribute more than other colors the trace of the earth itself.
The connection to ground is especially important to him in his paintings. It is to the ordinary people's everyday lives of millennia-old history of Mesopotamia, connected with all underlying nature as the human being find his way in simple moves from building houses to making tea, accompanied by grief and sorrow and on boundless wings desire. In this spirit is shown that Zülfikar’s painterly approach is even at first sight, absorbed in the tradition of its origin. A closer look reveals how he combines the figurative-folk roots of the oriental imagery with abstract-free elements of modern occidental art. By repeatedly incorporating large pieces of traditional kilim rugs material in his compositions and his subjects with flowing and dripping color marks turbulence in the moving. So he has developed a very own style.