Floods
Nahem Shoa's paintings of floods and natural disasters are a visual and intellectual response to all the catastrophes in our world. 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. Titian’s 1526 Entombment of Christ is in the Louvre was the starting point of Dead Pony 2012. Two Riots police are carrying a boy, who seems dead; his face looks beaten and a white bandage has been placed over his eyes. A 'holy blue' shroud has been wrapped around His limp body. A menacing red cloud hovers mysteriously above. A single arm emerges from the smoke, holding a bright yellow flare as if mourning a death. In fact the painting is a composite of four different images of riots scenes happening at the same time in London, Rome, Athens and Paris.
A strange world is conjured up in Shoa’s paintings by his seamless integration of newspaper images with current events.
A strange world is conjured up in Shoa’s paintings by his seamless integration of newspaper images with current events.
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