Isshaq Ismail

Talking Faces 7

€7,600

Edition of 161.0 (H) × 45.0 (W) × 2.0 (D) cm

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Ghanaian painter Isshaq Ismail has quickly captured far-reaching art world attention with emotive, semi-abstract portraits in lurid impasto.

Our debut collaboration, Talking Faces, comprises a series of 10 original acrylic on canvas works rendered in Ismail's inimitable figurative style - where skewed facial features in luminous tones express familiar, empathy-inducing emotions.

“Like the way a sculptor sculpts human figures from clay, I sculpt my figures with the brush.”

Medium

Original acrylic painting on stretched, wooden-framed canvas.

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Finishing

Signed on front.

Release date

October 06, 2021

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Isshaq Ismail sitting on a chair with his hand resting on it in front of him as he stares forwards towards the camera

Isshaq Ismail1 collaborationInfantile Semi-Abstraction is the name Ismail gives to his distinctive style of portraiture. Drawing on the histories of Naïve painting, Neo-expressionism, Cubism and the architecture, art and history of his hometown, Accra, he examines personal feelings as they relate to our environments. The paintings have a sculptural sensibility. Luminous oil and acrylic shades are applied without inhibition as thick impasto using an eclectic range of tools. Ismail also incorporates elements of collage and assemblage — often with recycled debris from his studio — in a symbolic gesture that parallels the beauty found in imperfection with the inevitable faults of a human being.

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