Painting can safely be explained as pleasant design and perceptual system. But sometimes we glimpse proof of the frailty of our contemporary belief in an orderly rational universe. This is when a painting can strike fear and loathing in our civilized composure. Painting as threat.
Painting as a diagram of inner experience draws a precarious line between the monde concrete we bump into and the unknowable dimensions of thought: the dance of madness and reason. In this reflexive visual ritual we recognize our own inner perceptions as we recognize a stranger's interpretation of the objective world. We remember the precognitive visual language of our species as it is reflected back to us from painting: our animal-mystic dreams. Our self-knowledge is more than the splashing about of electro-chemical storms in our brains. Mystery betrays the known.
with French artist Jiwan Singh, Paris.Painting is a perceptually abstract construction. Paintings are visible as translations of sensory memory within the biological structure of the brain. But they are viewed and reconstructed in the mind's eye. Painting's sensual quality of colour and tactility act as emotional transmitters, re-attaching our isolated psyches to the spiritual identity of our species.
Together with Mala.ysian famous actor Dato' Mustapha Maarof and Datuk Aziz Satar,2010Sometimes sublime reactions can be aroused in the viewer. Understanding what we perceive in a painting cannot be measured in space and time. The shifting representation of conventional truth resides on the surface of memory. The memory and history of perception is kept alive in the manual tracings of painting, recording the internal reality of our transient lives.
These paintings do not intend to lull the viewer with the security of images and text mediated through conventional photo-realism or French philosophy; rendering any content safely detached and academic. Nor is the viewer entertained with the wallpaper of abstract "compositions". These paintings are uneasy fragments existing between objective experience and subjective perception. The content of these paintings exists in the conceptual space between conventional representation and the boundaries of the invisible.
...by Rae Johnson
Catatan Series 2006 -2009
Ismadi’s on catatan series paintings and drawings are part of his own lineage of abstraction that has evolved aresolution in a range of gestures, movements and erasures. The appearance and meaning of the resolution has developed in the meandering progression of the creative process. Ismadi continues his investigation into the possibilities of the accidental along with the more deliberate forms and lines in both nature and the man made world. The labors are personal, but also come from a place of acutely art and music. Similar to a musical composition, ismadi slowly creates his paintings by building on and modifying story telling applied in previous layers. He embraces improvisational gestures and incidents allowing some of the previous marks to show in a palimpsest manner. Among this rich layering are fits and starts of lines, doodles and sketches. This action occurs in so many layers, that some images are barely perceivable, giving us insight into ismadi's thought process and leaves you searching for more clues. The paintings are a steady, engrossing read that gradually reveal their history and resolve. My art work on canvas involves the unintended or accidental effect of a mark or gesture drawn over a period of time and many paint layers. This allows the viewer to form their own conclusion based on each individual perception and past experience.
Teh tarik Lentok, charcoal/mix on paper,2008, Private collection KL
You Should Try!,
mix on paper, 2006, Private collection KL
Kopitiam, oil on canvas, 2009,
Private collection KL.
Silat, oil on canvas, 2009,
Private collection KL.
The Meeting, oil on canvas, 2009,
Private collection KL.
Dangdut Wong Ah Jang, oil on canvas, 2009,
Private collection KL.
Abang Beca, oil on canvas, 2009,
Private collection KL. SELECTED WORKS since 1994
Kelicap(bird's name), charcoal on paper,91x122cm,2007,artist collection
Sketch of Warrior series sculpture, pencil, 2004, artist collection.
Skecth, Hukum Alam, oil pastel on paper
From my sketch book, mix media, 152 x 152cm, 2007,
Private collection Paris
Between Truth and Lies, mixmedia, 152x152cm, 2007,
Private collection Berlin
Nyejadi series, Nyawa, mix media on
canvas,152x214cm,2007,artist collection
Nyejadi, mix on canvas, 152 x 152cm, 2007,
Private Collection Paris.
Manjalara, mix on canvas, 122 x 122cm, 2004,
Private Collection USA
Manjalara series, Panji, mix on canvas, 122 x 122cm, 2001,
Private Collection Berlin.
Manjalara series, Casbah, 122x122cm, 2004,
Private Collection USA
Wild-Wild Red,mix media,152x152cm,2006
Manjalara series-Belatok, acrylic,91x122cm,2004,
collection of Ong Gallery, Malaysia.
Manjalara series, Esok Naik Haji, mix media on
canvas, 152 x 214cm, 2001, artist collection
Abu dan arang, charcoal on canvas, 122x122cm, 2007,
Private Collection KL.
COLLABORATION WORKS
Sculptur, Nabil Roland Bucher, swiss artist-in collaboration with ismadi-December 2011 exhibition,PJ. STUDIO,
Balai Seni Lukis Pahang, Jln kemunting, Kuantan, Pahang.
Thames Riverside, London, 2009COLLECTION•PERNAS INTERNATIONAL BHD.MINISTRY OF CULTURE, ARTS & TOURISM, MALAYSIA
•MALAYSIA MINING CORPORATION.CITY BANK, KL.SAUDAGAR SENI KL.BOX OFFICE
(MALAYSIA).SIRIM BHD, SHAH ALAM.AMERICAN EXPRESS, KL.SHANGRILA HOTEL, KL .BRIDGEPORT BHD KL.RASHID HUSSAIN BHD.HONG LEONG BANK KL.HONG LEONG SECURITIES KL.KLSE
HYATT REGENCY,KUANTAN.FSSR, UITM.JOHN HANCOOK INSURANCE.KL
RAHULAN ZAIN & ASSOCIATES.KL, SYED AHMAD IBRAHIM ARCHITEC.KL. ART FOLIO, KL. GLENEAGLE INTAN MEDICAL CENTRE, KL. WESTIN HOTEL, KL. PUTRA HOTEL, KL .RAFFLES HOTEL SINGAPORE.
GERMAN EMBASSY, KL.JAPAN CULTURAL CENTRE, KLTOH PUAN MARIA TUN DATO’ MUSTAPHA,
YB DATO DR NG YEN YEN, KL.DR AZIZ YAHYA, KLDATIN SENDRA CHONG, KLDATIN EVA MARIA ., KL.YB DATO SAHARUDDIN MOIN.DATO MAZNAH ABD JALIL.YB DATO MAZNAH BT MAZLAN.
DATO MD. SHARIF SHAMSUDDIN.MR YUSUF GHANI.HIJJAS KASTURI, KL.PAKHARUDDIN, KL.YM TUNKU NINA MANSUR,
TAKSU GALLERY, KL.YM TUNKU ZUBAIDAH, PENANG.JUN DATO BAHARUDDIN, TANGSI GALLERY,KL
CELIA, ART SALON, BANGSAR.IZAT BUKHARY ISMAIL BUKHARY.ERICA & ATORD,CROCODILE ROCK, KUANTAN.MR H. KUMAR KL.JAMES ONG, PENANG.ONG ART GALLERY, PENANG.NARZLAN EMIR, KL
NIKMAT ABDULLAH, KL.FIXCO ADVERTISING, SUBANG JAYA..SHINSOZO ORIENT MALAYSIA
KOLEJ IKIP, KUANTAN.KOLEJ SHAHPUTRA, KUANTAN.MR GERALD GREGOR, FRANKFURT.ADALIN GALLERY, FRANKFURT.DEUTCH BANK, BERLIN.DEUTCH BANK, FRANKFURT.PHILLIPS & WIFE, PARIS
JIWAN SINGH, PARIS.UNESCO, PARIS.THE ART LAND GALLERY, PARIS.MRS HEATHER, USA.
SMELLING SOCKS GALLERY, ROTTERDAM. DR.RAMPA, MALAYSIA, MR OTTO AMSTERDAM, RAFFLES HOTEL SINGAPORE, CITYBANK KL, PAVILLION HOTEL KL, STEPHEN MENON KL, DATO DR NAJIB DAWA, NATIONAL ART GALLERY KL, CHOYCD KL,MICHELA ITALY.
with the Minister of Culture, Arts and Tourim, Malaysia, 2005.
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Inderapura series-White Scratch, mix media on canvas, 120 x 120cm, 2011
Inderapura series- Aura, mix media on canvas, 120 x 120cm, 2011
Inderapura series- From my sketch book, mix media on canvas, 120 x 120cm, 2011
Inderapura series- Against Nature's, acrylic, 150 x 150cm, 2011
Inderapura series-Lambaian Cengal,acrylic,
Inderapura series-Gerbang Rimba(Forest gate),
Inderapura series-Takhta, acrylic, 150 x 210 cm, 2010.
Inderapura series-Flora Splash, 150 x 150 cm, acrylic, 2011. SOLD. 21 May 2011-Collection Mr Wayne, Lynas Kuantan.
Inderapura series, Lata Jarum, acrylic, 120 x 120 cm, 2011
Inderapura series, Red Landscape, acrylic, 120 x 120 cm, 2011
Inderapura series, Salam Alam, acrylic, 150 x 210cm, 2011
Inderapura series, Jentayu, acrylic, 120 x 120cm, 2011
