Artist: Sharif Abdul Baruwa Venue: Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna Exhibition Title: Hallo Austria, Hallo Vienna Date: March 3 – April 27, 2021 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna Press Release: While the work of Abdul Sharif Baruwa takes many forms, it is a mistake to read it simply as a series of formal elements. Ultimately, we are being invited into a very personal and beautifully complex world. Sharif’s forms emerge through intuitive processes of drawing as analysis and synthesis. This comes out of an urgent need for personal authenticity, whether relating to found objects, nature or his own production — an authenticity that the artist never takes for granted, even within the activity of occupying his own personal space. Those formal elements, which we can somehow recog...