John Isaac

“…Running alongside the seeming directness and simplicity of John Isaacs’ work there is a pervasive current of unease and anxiety that identifies our modern way of life and its thinking as somehow warped, disjunctive and off balance … much of Isaacs’ work seems to suggest that if you scratch at the surface of conventional reality, then a repressed can of worms – a world of ugly and uncomfortable truth – lies just below the thin plastic exterior of our pre-packed modern sanitised world. Playing with the extremities and taboos of the modern day norm, Isaacs’ art reveals a number of uncomfortable truths that, he believes, we are all, to some extent, conscious of.” (read full text here)

The Matrix of Amnesia, 1998

Other people’s Lives (scapegoat), 2003

You Said You Would Always Be There (Unicorn’s Head), 2006

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3 Responses to “John Isaac”

Sergejs Pisarenko says:

April 21, 2009 at 07:51

I like the first one.

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wakili says:

June 13, 2009 at 06:59

Wow i really like your art works specially the sculptures,
What kind of material you use for that?

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