Lorient Le-Jour
L’art de Nazir Ismail, tout d’abréviations et d’élisions, fait de ses papiers et de ses cahiers polyptiques une sorte d’inventaire entomologique de l’étouffement, de la désespérance, de l’absence d’avenir.
No artist is more loyal to his individuality, his feelings, his agony, his tears, and his joy like Nazir Ismail.
TARRAB Joseph - Lorient-Le Jour 2003
An interview with Nazir Ismail on the Syrian TV.
In Arabic - 14-11-2012.
An interview with Nazir Ismail on the Syrian TV.
In Arabic - 20-09-2008
Sold at Christie’s This painting depicting a family of roosters comes from the first solo exhibition held for Nazir Ismail, at the Arabic Cultural Centre in Damascus, in 1971.
Sold at Christie’s with another painting - Figures 1970- at the Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art Part II Dubai 2012.
Listed in ArtNet network as Untitled , 2005 sold with other paintings between 1968 and 2010.
Art on 56th is showing the retrospective exhibition celebrating the career and oeuvre of the late contemporary artist Nazir Ismail. In honour of the third anniversary of his passing.
Ismail depicts the human face in such a manner that expresses his artistic view. The density of his style is symbolic. In his work, faces are embedded with this surrounding without burdening paintings with colour groups.
Samer Kozah Gallery featured Nazir Ismail's Artworks with other Syrian Artists in BEIRUT ART FAIR 2019.
8 Sep 2003
L’art de Nazir Ismail, tout d’abréviations et d’élisions, fait de ses papiers et de ses cahiers polyptiques une sorte d’inventaire entomologique de l’étouffement, de la désespérance, de l’absence d’avenir.
12 Apr 2019
Nazir Ismail’s paintings and works on paper represent explorations of human emotions. His works primarily portray elongated faces, set in flat, compressed spaces. The artist used colour to produce detail and to express a range of feelings. He created clusters in his compositions, drawing the viewer to examine the surface as a whole and absorb the plethora of sensibilities.
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