RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Reading Al Hassan Issah’s Radicant Formalism
JF Ghana Studies
JO Gha Stu
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 215
OP 222
DO 10.3368/gs.25.1.215
VO 25
IS 1
A1 Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh
YR 2023
UL https://gs.uwpress.org/gs.uwpress.org/content/25/1/215.abstract
AB 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.