Nahem Shoa

NAHEM SHOA



Nahem Shoa's artistic vision draws heavily on the current state of affairs, the world turned upside down, financial crashes, earthquakes, Tsunamis, people taking to the streets in public protests, uprisings and capitalism possibly in its death throes since the financial crash of 2008: His paintings explore the comic, tragic elements of a modern day "˜apocalypse', or a Jean Baudrillard says "˜The Illusion of the end".

Shoa's work is a visual and intellectual response to all this. Searching for the "˜truth' in our 24-hour media bombarded world, Shoa's multi layered paintings capture the zeitgeist of this moment in history, lingering invisibly in our collective unconscious.

Shoa's paintings are presentations of his own documentation of history. He appropriates images that directly relate to contemporary "˜history' combined with icons from popular culture that have been evicted from their original purposes, Mickey Mouse, Buzz Light year, Edvard Munch's Scream, Amy Winehouse and Lady Gaga, to make new hybrid paintings. Shoa based his painting of Gaga, The third of May, assassination by media on the most famous anti-war painting of the 19th century, Goya's The Third of May. Gaga in this disguise has based her...

Solo major one man exhibitions
Facing Yourself, Bury City Art Gallery & Museum
True To Life. Coventry City Art Gallery 2 shows.
Giant Heads and Multi Culture, Hartlepool City Art Gallery
Youth Culture, Plymouth City Art Gallery & Museum
Uncompromising Study. The Herbert Coventry
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