Isaac Mann creates mysterious and playful scenes of colourful visual excess. Inspired by early 20th century muralists and silver-age comic book artists - Mann’s work comes riddled with layers. His figures are abstracted, composed of simplified shapes, and intertwined with each other, imbuing the compositions with ambiguity.
The narrative in his paintings is sometimes outlandish and kinky, but always tongue-in-cheek, and the mundane domestic settings heighten the atmosphere. Travelling the line between play, eroticism, and romance, he places figures in moments of intimacy that range from tender to overwhelmingly suggestive. It is in these depictions that Mann creates worlds of fantasy, which escape dull every-day life to days filled with ecstasy.
‘Slap Slap Kiss’, while populated with specific visual details from the artist’s life, toys with the faithfulness of memories - an acknowledgement of the uncertainty inherent within even our most assured of memories.
The narrative in his paintings is sometimes outlandish and kinky, but always tongue-in-cheek, and the mundane domestic settings heighten the atmosphere. Travelling the line between play, eroticism, and romance, he places figures in moments of intimacy that range from tender to overwhelmingly suggestive. It is in these depictions that Mann creates worlds of fantasy, which escape dull every-day life to days filled with ecstasy.
‘Slap Slap Kiss’, while populated with specific visual details from the artist’s life, toys with the faithfulness of memories - an acknowledgement of the uncertainty inherent within even our most assured of memories.