Ayyam Gallery Dubai (Al Quoz) is pleased to announce Seven Years featuring Elias Izoli's newest figurative paintings representative of the state Izoli has witnessed living in Syria over the past seven years.
As the seven-year anniversary of the Syrian war has come and gone, the conflict is getting only more entrenched and complicated, while the outside world has hit a ceiling of shock. Izoli’s empathetic paintings in which the artist draws from his surroundings and atmosphere in his country of residence provide a new ground for comparisons. Somber yet softly coloured, the paintings depict children with hunched shoulders and evocative gazes, either looking directly at the viewer or off to a distance, unaware that anyone is looking.
