In With Yves Coat I, Efren Isaza transforms haute couture into a visual enigma where the female figure emerges with striking theatrical presence. Masterfully employing mixed media photography, the artist physically intervenes on the canvas with layers of paint, ink, and deliberate scratches, blurring the boundaries between fashion portraiture and contemporary fine art. The gestural splashes and atmospheric background impart a dramatic tension that strips the garment of its utilitarian context, elevating it into a living sculpture. This unique piece captures the decisive moment when Isaza transcended traditional photography, offering collectors a compelling narrative rich in texture and emotion.
This unique work, intervened and produced between 2009 and 2010, marks Isaza's artistic transition from traditional fashion photography to fine art. It was then that he began to explore beyond the camera lens by applying physical interventions to his printed images, utilizing paint, crayon, tape, graphite, and other unconventional materials. This mixed-media process provided him with an avenue to explore photography on a larger scale, allowing him to represent his female subjects with a greater sense of grandeur.
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Mixed Media Photography - With Yves Coat I, 2010. By Efren Isaza
With Yves Coat I, 2010
Archival pigment photograph printed onto canvas Intervened with paint, and ink and intentionally scratched by the artist.
Dimensions: 70 H x 52 W in.
Unique
Signed, titled, dated, and annotated in pencil on the reverse
Acquired from the photographer's studio, 2011.
Framed
Efren Isaza, one of Colombia’s most influential fashion photographers, initially studied fashion design. He united his interest in fashion with one of his earliest passions: photography. Graceful female figures lounge in fashionable poses. Paper costumes that seem borrowed from Oskar Schlemmer’s triadic ballet make the ballerinas look like marionettes.
Their dislocation recalls the puppets Hans Bellmer featured in his surreal photographic experiments. Frida Kahlo’s face with her dark, furrowed eyebrows, peers at the viewer out of different scenes; her hair is knotted artfully on her head.The allusions evoked in the imaginative creations of Colombian Fashion photographer Isaza are diverse: he cites and alienates an arsenal of styles before melding them into new compositions OF ONE OF A KIND LIMITED EDITION ARTWORK. It might be a certain scene, a poem, a petal of a flower, or the idea of a person that inspires a new work. His passion for breaking the boundaries of traditional fashion photography is palpable in each of Isaza’s unique works. He is less concerned with fashion than the image, the play of contrasts and the magic and the emotions sometimes saturnine,sometimes buoyant, sometimes surreal, and yet always beguiling that the image transports.
