The Spring, 2023
€ 4,914
Oil on Canvas
80 W x 100 H cm
Signed by the artist, front.
Lebanon
On the Work
In his paintings, Halloum depicts intricately textured landscapes with vivid colors and airy configurations on canvases and sculptures, playing with surfaces and textures to create illusions of flatness.
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Issa Halloum
He depicts intricately textured landscapes with vivid colors and airy configurations on canvases and sculptures, playing with surfaces and textures to create illusions of flatness.
Issa Halloum, a Lebanese artist born in Kuwait in 1968, graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts at the Lebanese University in 1993, before pursuing studies in Artistic Anatomy at the Brera Academy in Milan in 1999.
He paints from direct observation, carefully studying movement and light, engaging with these elements to create visual experiences rooted in the present moment. His palette is intense and expressive, revealing the significant influence of the great post-impressionist masters. As with Cezanne and Gaugin, he is generous with colors and his brushstrokes are energetic.
Both calming and seductive, his paintings, with simplified forms, have a tangible feel. Whether he is painting a bright landscape, a busy market scene, an intimate view from a balcony, or an anonymous model, the artist freezes the action and the bustle.
Additionally, his paintings are expansive. Landscapes and scenes are given room to flourish, creating the impression that the images outstretch the margin of the canvas, celebrating the abundance of nature, while carrying an aesthetic incompleteness that suspends the momentum of the compositions.
Halloum has participated in several individual and collective exhibitions across the Middle East and abroad, notably in Lebanon, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Italy. His works are part of several regional and global private collections.
Solo
2023 LAU Beirut Campus; Kelimat Sanat Galeri, Istanbul.
2021 Art on 56th Gallery, Gemayze, Beirut.
2020 Al-Markhiya Gallery, Doha, Qatar.
2018 Alwan Gallery Saifi, Beirut.
2017 CAP Gallery, Kuwait.
2010, 2013, 2015 Alwan Gallery Saifi, Beirut.
2009 Haigazian Art Center, Beirut.
2001–2004 Alwan Gallery Kaslik, Beirut.
1998 French Cultural Center, Beirut.
1995–1997 Alwan Gallery Kaslik, Beirut.
Group
2023 Art Book, Al Markhya Gallery, Qatar.
2017–2018 Sursock Museum, Beirut.
2009 First Prix C&I University.
2004–2008 Alwan Gallery Saifi, Lebanon.
2002 Hotel Kadri, Zahle, Lebanon.
2001 National Museum, Kuwait.
2000 Human Rights Movement, Baalbeck, Lebanon; For the Sake of Jerusalem, Damascus; Murale, UNESCO.
1999 Commune di Milano, Milan.
1996 International College, Beirut; United Arab Emirates; Salon du Printemps, UNESCO, Beirut.
1994–1996 Salon d’Automne, Sursock Museum, Beirut.
