Rotation

Isupov strange, surreal deformations of human character merge observation and imagination, creating a ‘collage’ of memory and fleeting reference that captures images, faces and movements in sculptural object. ‘Rotation’ seems to merge several recognisable shapes into a compound of human, demon, animal and elemental; the artist using a theatrical selection of colour for impressively detailed surface painting that adds further reference, additional landscape and more figurative elements into the two-dimensional plane of the hand-thrown body. Disassociation with gender plays heavily across the artists work, and here bodies embrace androgyny or find a harmonising mirror image of male and female.