gallery ismadi

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

artworks -mix media abstract-private collection

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Monday, May 7, 2012

abstract painting 2012- -ismadi

in masking, mix on canvas, 4.5 x 4.5ft.2012

CAMOUFLAGE, mix on canvas, 5 x 5ft.2012

Saturday, April 28, 2012

RIMBA SERIES- ISMADI ARTWORK 2012

RIMBA series, Nature Composition, mix media on canvas,4x4ft, 2012

RIMBA series, Wind Sketch, mix media on canvas,4x4ft, 2012

RIMBA series, Victory, mix media on canvas,5x5ft, 2012

RIMBA series, Beauty of Mistake, mix media and pewter on canvas,4x4ft, 2012

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Mengadap Rebab ismadi painting for sale

Malaysia artist, Zulkifli Yusoff and ismadi infront of 'Mengadap Rebab" at MAFE- Malaysia France Art Exhibition at ASWARA 2011

'Mengadap Rebab' Dance:

This opening dance of the traditional theatre performance called Mak Yong is considered to be a court or classical dance due to the nature and performance structure. The very courtly and graceful style, beginning in a seated position, lowered eyeline and finger movements are in keeping with this style. The biggest difference is that here the dancers all face the ‘rebab’ which is stringed instrument played vertically. The lead dancer also sings a haunting song telling of virtue and respect for nature and life.

Deputy Minister of Information, communication and Culture of Malaysia infront of Mengadap Rebab, 2011

here are the video about 'Mengadap Rebab'

info: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw-HLgfyf4g

'Mengadap Rebab', oil paint on canvas, 8 x 6 ft (2 panel), 2011, MYR 30K. -not including the delivery cost.

Ismadi tells about his work

My visual work is my way of speaking. My way of being in the world. My source is desire. Longing for gestures I have not previously made. Gestures that speak about how I look at the people, life surround and the world from my reality. I am talking about the living world in its loneliness. Its separateness. In its being different. Without land, without origin. Suffering. Loving. Vulnerable, yet grand: strange! That mystery I want to show.
The beauty of nature and the relationship between humans and life are to me an endless source of inspiration. I work from a non- thoughtful rough flow of lines and gestures. A game where I surrender to a kind of inner music. All images are notes of the same music which cannot exist without each other.

I myself am the outsider. The observer. The spectator who intuitively registers the things that hit me emotionally and are existential for me. As an artist I try to get a grip on that reality.

This desire arises in an almost haunting way and is my constant motivation for my work. This often happens on canvas in large format. The gravity of that search is visible in my large paintings. Often it is just not what I meant and then I do it again and again and again. You can see that struggle and despair. So I am vulnerable in my work.

On the other hand there is the playful side of the non-reflecting gestures that constitute images which I am often amazed about. It is a game. Everything is possible. I just follow my hand without thinking. In a state of apparent emptiness I surrender to a kind of inner music. Each new line and stroke is my own creation. Later I am sometimes surprised by the strange creatures that appeared. Creatures that have something seems like characteristic of a human being and life. As if they merge.

When paint with oil on canvas I feel more free as when I am draw on paper. All of this works have been done through sketches studies....but the actual painting sometimes its not really same as sketches. its only my studies!

For all, Enjoyyyy...

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