Ramal Kazim is a graduate of the Azerbaijani State Academy of Arts (2008). Since 2009 he has been a member of the Azerbaijan Artist’s Union. Kazim’s works have been exhibited extensively in Azerbaijan and abroad. Drawing from the expressionist tradition, he composes paintings marked by impactful, unusual figures and a chromatic bluntness. Kazim essentially constructs a visual diary of human experience, using strategies of shock and provocation as important vehicles of expression. Kazim’s expressive figures and imagery directly address issues that are taboo in Azerbaijan. The figures are representative of an experimental portraiture that lives on the border between reality and abstraction. Images combine broken bottle fragments, violent gestures, and contorted faces that twist in pain and passion.
