Artists

Karim Ghidinelli

Karim Ghidinelli was born in Brescia, a city in the north of Italy. At age eleven his family traveling for extensive periods of time. Karim’s worldly experiences and adventures include living in Guinea Bissau, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and eventually leading him back to his home country.

He began developing his worldviews along with his passion for art as a teenager living in Ethiopia. It was at this time that he began to read social symbolism, which came about from his exposure to cultures and lifestyles that differed the pampered society of Italy.

In Ethiopia Karim attended an English school along with students from a multitude of other cultures, religions, races and nationalities. Upon returning to Italy, he attended The International School of Milan, which called for adapting to this homogenous culture. And although Karim was catapulted into a bourgeois environment to which he was not accustomed, he keenly observed and learned. After little more than a year he departed Italy and headed for the Southern African country of Namibia

He later attended the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London and completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in painting, in Savannah, Georgia. Karim then moved to Miami, where he now resides.

“My work is based upon passage, mark, and assurance. Identity is naturally a part of the evolutionary process of the passage; the mark is embodied by my distinctive trace on the page. As my work documents the passage of others, it simultaneously assures me of my own journey.

The work needs to achieve a political unity and needs to express its provenance or dissidence -- as life constantly reminds us of the inevitability of politics. The piece is never concluded; rather it symbolizes the continuation of a phase, from myself to the public, from my interpretation to yours. Through its exposure the work obtains necessary nutrients, indispensable for further creation and maintaining the link.”