IBRAHIM EL HADDAD

Ibrahim_El_Haddad

www.ibrahimelhaddad.ch
"I have been working on a series of works, which reflect the way I think of painting rather than making a painting. I deliberately use contradiction and paradoxes. Through material mediums I try to explore what is not material. For that purpose I use my paintings as objects or even cover them with plastic. For me painting is nothing but contradiction between material and immaterial and this contradiction is the dynamic of art."


Biography
Ibrahim El Haddad was born in 1963 and grew up in the heart of old Cairo. He studied painting in the College of Fine Arts in Cairo. In 1990, right after graduation, he moved to Switzerland through a Bursary from Christoph Merian Stiftung and from then on kept exhibiting in Cairo and Switzerland. He plays also guitar and percussion. After two years of formal education at Jazz Schule Basel he got enough basis to write his own music. Alongside painting, drawing, objects he is involved in different music projects.
Black_splash_on_a_naked_body_____Oil_on_canvas__160x100cm_2009
Black splash on a naked body. 2009.

Body_in_grey______Oil_on_canvas______160x100cm_2009
Body in grey. 2009.

made_in_china_oil_and_plastic_on_canvas_100x160cm_2010
Made in China. 2010.