This intriguing artwork mixed media presents a surreal figure, striking an unconventional pose as it leans over a table. The figure is depicted with elongated limbs and stands confidently in high-heeled shoes, suggesting a blend of elegance and defiance. The hair billows extravagantly, almost cloud-like, adding an ethereal quality to the scene. The background is a subtle blend of muted tones, creating a dreamlike atmosphere that contrasts with the vivid blue splatters, injecting a sense of spontaneity and boldness. The use of light and shadow enhances the three-dimensionality, while the painterly strokes in the background bring a fluidity to the otherwise static pose. This artwork captivates with its striking juxtaposition of form and color, inviting viewers to explore themes of identity, freedom, and transformation.
Single Twin Reclined, 2010. Mixed Media
Single Twin Reclined, 2010
Archival pigment photograph printed onto canvas, intervened with paint, ink, and intentionally scratched by the artist
Dimensions: 40.5 H x 29 W in.
Unique
Signed, titled, dated and annotated by the artist on verso
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.
