Adiam Hailesillassie or the "variety of the world" The face of man is a face of the world. The face of life. Should you paint what is on a face, in a face or behind a face? Pablo Picasso asked this head question and developed pioneering expressiveness for modernity: for it, the face of the Homo sapiens is largely deconstructed and completely solved from the classic portrait. "The secret in us" in the art of Adiam Hailesillassie encounter many faces - and the diversity of the world. They are not real portraits of identifiable people, but complex physiognomies of the psyche. The images appear universal: they do not reflect an individual, no identity - rather they embody the search for individuality and identity. It is to a certain extent timeless archetypes of faces, ambiguous, puzzling, mysterious, sometimes mask -like - and of suggestive fascination. Here comes to see human beings. It was no coincidence that a large Hailesillassie exhibition from 2013 was entitled "Inner Worlds". Not from UN Danger means one of her pictures: "The secret in us". The painter was inspired by the legendary Turiner Grave towel. She says: "There is a bit of 'something of Jesus in it." And vice versa, and very secular, one could add: In her pictures there is also the inner face of the viewer, which communicates with the subject and impressions with the subject. The art of composition The range of work, not only the face pictures, show the artist's compositional skills as well as her passion for emotional, vital, even shimmering colors. This also proves to create a large whole for the Tableaus, which creates a large whole from small (st) structures and (figurative) details. The painter works with oil or acrylic or coal. Compositions made of natural materials, canvas and color are significant. "I often primarily primed my canvases with bamboo, paper, sand or stones." This gives the visual impression more depth. Natural tones or metallic Valeurs are also happy to come into play, with the metal pigments radiating special shine under the light. Adiam Hailesillassie is autodid act that has been working artistically intensely since 1999 and deepens her skills at art courses (E). She refers inspiration "from work with people", from the (creative) examination of religion, especially Christianity and Buddhism, and from her travels after and staying in Eritrea, Rome, Sudan and Egypt. A key to her work lies in her biography, which, despite everything, could not take a positive attitude to life: born in 1974, she experiences the death of parents and the war at home in Eritrea as a child. As a nine -year -old, she comes to Germany - and will soon go her way. The cover picture of this catalog shows a face in which other physiognomies and figures are artistically integrated. So the painter lets the viewer experience something very meaningfully - how to look at one, in and behind a face. Egon Heidefeld Gallery Heidefeld & Partner