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Ebrahim BuSaad

Over the years, the Kingdom of Bahrain has forged an impressive reputation as a bastion of contemporary, creative expression. Ebrahim BuSaad comes from the second generation of the island's family of artists who have polished their talents through a successful combination of formal academic training, personal study and private introspection. It is thanks to BuSaad, his fellow artists and their predecessors that Bahrain continues to uphold its status as a cultural powerhouse in the GCC, articulating not only the environment in which they live but the universality of issues and values that they share.

Born in Muharraq in 1954, BuSaad demonstrated his prodigious talent at a young age on the walls of local houses as well as in the classroom. He later received a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the University of Baghdad, Iraq, where he studied under the critical eye of the celebrated artist, Faiq Hassan, who was a member of the country's Pioneers (“Al Ruwad”) movement.

Hassan's repertoire of styles spanned impressionism and abstraction, as well as Cubism and the impact of his work on that of BuSaad's is indisputable.

According to fellow practitioner Abdullah Yousif, «BuSaad's experience flourished from where its visual dimensions were first confined; within the back streets, people, sea dhows, sky, palm trees and sparrows of old Muharraq Town.» However, his appetite for research and experimentation led him to explore various approaches to canvas and paper as well as the interdisciplinary of poetry, music and performance. Today, he continues to be driven by an innovative approach to his calling - experimenting with raw materials as well as colour, perspective and subject matter.

Over the last 20 years, BuSaad has enjoyed numerous solo exhibitions in his home country which have been staged by the Bahrain Arts Society and Albareh Gallery, among others. His overseas exposure, however, has tended to remain within the realms of collective shows held throughout the GCC as well as further afield in Egypt, Jordan, Spain and France.

The recipient of the highly coveted Al Dana award of the 2000 Bahrain Annual Art Exhibition and the Golden Leaf of the 2007 GCC Arabic Calligraphy Exhibition in Muscat, Oman, BuSaad's bold, colourful yet sensual, artistic expression is expected to enjoy further worldwide appeal now that it has captured the collecting momentum spreading across the Middle East and Arab world.

«We are not dealing with a common artwork here,» writes Abdullah Yousif, «but rather we are being introduced to dissimilar formations of a number of faces in small and huge sizes; all escaping the familiar frames that usually encompass the artwork.

It is a unique atmosphere by itself, with an artistic dimension, and variable traits, cases and features.»

Untitled 2 | Oil on canvas | 140x120 cm | 2008

Untitled 1 | Oil on canvas | 140x120 cm | 2008

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Untitled 3 | Oil on canvas | 140x120 cm | 2008

Untitled 6 | Oil on canvas | 140x120 cm | 2008

Untitled 5 | Oil on canvas | 140x120 cm | 2008

Untitled 8 | Oil on canvas | 140x120 cm | 2008

Untitled 7 | Oil on canvas | 140x120 cm | 2008

Untitled 10 | Oil on canvas | 140x120 cm | 2008

Untitled 9 | Oil on canvas | 140x120 cm | 2008

Untitled 12 | Oil on canvas | 140x120 cm | 2008

Untitled 11 | Oil on canvas | 140x120 cm | 2008

Untitled 14 | Oil on canvas | 140x120 cm | 2008

Untitled 12 | Oil on canvas | 140x120 cm | 2008

Untitled 16 | Oil on canvas | 140x120 cm | 2008

Untitled 15 | Oil on canvas | 140x120 cm | 2008

Untitled 18 | Oil on canvas | 140x120 cm | 2008

Untitled 17 | Oil on canvas | 140x120 cm | 2008

Untitled 19 | Oil on canvas | 140x120 cm | 2008