Ramal Kazim is a graduate of the Azerbaijani State Academy of Arts (2008). He was noticed immediately by professional critics for his very mature and somewhat dark style. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Azerbaijan Artist’s Union. Kazim’s works have been exhibited extensively in Azerbaijan and abroad. Working within the expressionist movement, 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 expressively realist figures and imagery immediately and bluntly 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.
