Nazir Ismail Born in Damascus, Syria   Born in Damascus in 1948, Nazir Ismail graduated from the Syrian Plastic Art Centre. He held individual exhibitions in Syria, Beirut, Amman, Cairo, Dubai, Paris, and Geneva. No artist is more loyal to his individuality, his feelings, his agony, his tears, and his joy like Nazir Ismail. In his work, Ismail combines expressionism and surrealism to describe his feelings; depicting the frozen cultural, social, and political atmosphere that he sees around him - defeat, losses, confusion, conversations, bitterness, people with no refuge and clusters of faces projecting their inner anxiety. Cases of loneliness, isolation, misery, and agony wrapped with silence sometimes and sorrow other times. In his minimal composition and modest use of color, Nazir creates a dramatic vision with movement that breaks the silence of his people and captures a new tone in each face. One of the uniqueness of Nazir Ismail is the creation of his own paints, and his handmade paper, using whatever material he could collect from nature. With his people, Nazir travels near abstraction, a special abstraction, where the identity of the human being is totally cancelled. His works are found in the National Museum of Damascus, the Syrian Ministry of Culture, the Syrian Presidential Palace, and many private collections.           Courtyard Gallery all rights reserved. privacy policy