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December 2011
Abbas Yousif
Solo Exhibition
Bahrain Art Society
26 December - 31 January 2012
Solo Exhibition
Bahrain Art Society
26 December - 31 January 2012
THE SOLO exhibition of Bahraini artist Abbas Yousif at the Bahrain Arts Society will showcase a series of paintings that takes light as a symbolical cue to highlight associations between with time, space, people and personal experience realised through a minimalist yet overcharged visual language.
These paintings (on canvas and paper) emerge as manifold reverberations and historical memory. Often revealing his own process-oriented practice, Abbas’ scenarios carve out lingering exchanges between past and present, in which unexpected connections unfold with sudden clarity.
Often painted in series, he does not rely solely on prefabricated canvases for his works, he creates his own surfaces: using glue, collages paper, various kinds of impasto to produce a base on which he layers colour.
The saturation and composition of the colours and the expressionist appeal of the brushwork contribute as much to the quality of his work as the depth of the positive and negative spaces he uncovers with the knife. The multilayered assemblies of his artworks bring to mind undefined "ancient forces" and buried memories that defy unequivocal categorisation.
These paintings (on canvas and paper) emerge as manifold reverberations and historical memory. Often revealing his own process-oriented practice, Abbas’ scenarios carve out lingering exchanges between past and present, in which unexpected connections unfold with sudden clarity.
Often painted in series, he does not rely solely on prefabricated canvases for his works, he creates his own surfaces: using glue, collages paper, various kinds of impasto to produce a base on which he layers colour.
The saturation and composition of the colours and the expressionist appeal of the brushwork contribute as much to the quality of his work as the depth of the positive and negative spaces he uncovers with the knife. The multilayered assemblies of his artworks bring to mind undefined "ancient forces" and buried memories that defy unequivocal categorisation.
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