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Expression in art has many ways of delivering its message. Sometimes as a framed idea, or through the pure intensity of the brush that simultaneously encodes emotion. It serves the deeply aesthetical, almost sensorial needs of visual vocabulary that humans use. Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to display three artists different in form, yet similar in approach: Aboudia, Lan Zhenghui and Armand Boua.

Aboudia is a mid-career African artist who has started as a graffiti writer in Abidjan, than switching to the collages, which helped him to study in depth the imagery of African tribal art as well …