Imprints
After a decade of monochromatic works on paper, Al Banna taps into a spectrum of color. Like thick honey, he overlays his paper with colored ink and proceeds to top it with a second sheet of paper. Using a paint roller, he brushes over his composition with varying degrees of pressure, so as to see, when the two sheets are separated, endless manifestations reminiscent of vines trailing a path or streams of water rushing through. Imprints plays with the codes of figuration and abstraction, creating organic clusters flowing like natural elements: air, clouds, earth, space.
Imprints 1, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 2, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 3, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 4, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 5, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 6, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 7, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 8, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 9, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 10, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 11, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 12, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 14, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 17, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 18, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 13, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 15, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 16, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 1, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 2, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 3, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 4, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 5, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 6, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 7, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 8, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 9, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 10, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 11, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 12, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 13, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 14, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 15, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 16, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 17, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints 18, 2010, Colored ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Imprints, Installation view, Interconnections, Museum of Contemporary Arabic Art, Sharjah, UAE, 2021
Imprints, Installation view, Interconnections, Museum of Contemporary Arabic Art, Sharjah, UAE, 2021
Imprints, Installation view, Interconnections, Museum of Contemporary Arabic Art, Sharjah, UAE, 2021
Imprints, Installation view, Interconnections, Museum of Contemporary Arabic Art, Sharjah, UAE, 2021
Imprints, Installation view, Interconnections, Museum of Contemporary Arabic Art, Sharjah, UAE, 2021
Imprints, Installation view, Layered Contradictions, Aisha Alabbar Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE, 2021
Imprints, Installation view, Layered Contradictions, Aisha Alabbar Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE, 2021
Imprints, Installation view, Layered Contradictions, Aisha Alabbar Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE, 2021