ABSTRACT:
This exhibition review analyzes Al Hassan Issah’s debut solo exhibition in terms of the artist’s spatial approach to painting, which transgresses the traditional limits of the medium. One could suggest that the exhibition presents an altermodern criticism of the formalist ethos of modern art that is influenced by academic, mainstream art, and quotidian sources. The article argues that Issah’s formalism considers painting as a synthesis of structural, plastic, spatial, temporal, and aural forms.
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