Untitled
Description
Executed in: 2009
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Size: 60 x 50 cm (67 x 57 cm with frame)
Signed in Arabic on the front center part. Signed and dated on the front center part "Ismail 09"
Provenance
Private collection, Lebanon
Location
Lebanon
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Description
A master of mediums, Nazir Ismail portrays subject matter from Syria's contemporary religious and socio-political fabric. The artist explores themes of confusion, unease, and loss primarily through a blend of abstraction and figuration.
From an early age, he frequented folk artist Abu Subhi Al Tinawi’s studio which neighbored his grandfather’s home. This early exposure led him to begin his own practice as a self-taught artist in the 1960s. His debut exhibition was hosted in Beirut, where he then lived and worked. Refining his practice over time, he developed his own distinctive style consisting of earthy tones and a unique expressionist technique, painting human or animal figures in the tradition of ancient Syrian sculpture.
Ismail’s work has travelled to the world's cultural capitals in numerous solo and group exhibitions. A retrospective exhibition of his work was held in 1969 and in 1996 at the Goethe Institute in Damascus. He passed away in his homeland in 2016.
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