The giant cups 1 by Daniel Abera Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Acrylic , marker and collage on canvas Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm Year: 2026 Price: $2500.00 USD Status: available It is a mixed media art work made in 2026 100*100cm Why collect this work?Oversized, sharply tilted cups act as unstable architecture, compressing figures, foliage and patterned forms into a scene where ordinary objects govern social space. Abera states that he explores memory, identity and collective experience through Ethiopian everyday environments. Here, the cup becomes more than observed detail, serving as the scene’s dominant structure.In the photograph, overlapping white vessels cut diagonally across the square field. Dark heads and patterned clothing emerge around their rims and handles, leaving uncertain whether the figures carry, occupy or pass behind them.The documented acrylic, marker and collage support contrasting registers: broad colour fields, forceful contours, fine floral lines and bounded patterns. Their abrupt adjacency maintains the image’s crowded momentum without resolving it into continuous space.The work provides a focused case for considering how changes of scale can unsettle the boundary between still life and figure painting, with vessels functioning simultaneously as objects, barriers and possible shelters. About the ArtistDaniel Abera Daniel Abera is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: Mixed media painting. Based in Addis ababa, ET. Nationality: Ethiopian My practice explores memory, identity, and collective experience through everyday environments and objects.
