Shafaq Kurdish Artist Ja'afar Sayed Taufiq Kaka'i born in Khanaqin 1951 studied art "Drawing,"…

at the Faculty of Fine Arts / Baghdad. He worked as a painter, in the Department of Design and Publication in the Kurdish House of Culture and Publication 1976 and became a member of the Iraqis Association of Fine Artists. He immigrated to Spain in 1979 after harassment and pressure by the security services of the former regime. He received a Master's degree in painting and engraving and printing from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Madrid 1985-1987 and completed a higher education to gain the doctorate degree. He worked as

a teacher at the International session of engraving Studies in Kalia province of Catalonia, as well as in the course "Grafica" 91in the International University "Menndezbilayo" in La Corunia.  Through his art and academic march he got numerous awards and scholarships in the techniques of Engraving and Printing from international institutions, and had won several international and Spanish certificates of appreciation
Shafaq interviewed artist Kaka'i and stopped at the most important stations in his life of art

*The most important events after your exile trip in Spain had ended?
Spain is the country of arts, and I learned a lot from it .My migration to Spain had put me at the confluence of civilizations of East and West, and I had many works in the Museum of Art. I got a benediction prize and a scholarship from the Foundation of the artist Joan Nero.
Q: Do your artistic works have special features?
Each art that comes to its language and its own imprint turns into an art movement which has its contents and forms of, and this does not take place until after hard labor, and my work is close to abstract art, in spite of its expressionist features. I love my paintings to be obscure and poetic, , so I do not know how I interpret my paintings.

What are the most important personal galleries outside the country?
The beginning of my work was a small gallery and over ten years of continuous work I was able to hold the first Gallery for my works of art in Madrid, which is rich in the presence of top artists and I was the first man who held my own gallery side by side with great artists, and my success was great and it caused my publicity.

*- What is the outcome of your experiences in the years of exile?
In exile, there were many advantages. I learned self-reliance from the alienation and I learned to move out of the inherited traditional values and work in a free and democratic atmosphere, and worked under the sophisticated artistic atmosphere and this was an opportunity for the artist to express himself freely opposite of what we had been at the time of the dictatorial regime.
Interviewed by Salim Ismail Norga