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Olzhas Issan
Kazakhstan
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- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Oil Pastel on Canvas
- Other details : Unmounted artwork. Mounting and/or framing available on request.
- Dimensions : 29.1x57.5in
About this artwork
From the series Vanishing Archetypes
In this work, the beluga appears not simply as a fish, but as an ancient spirit of the Caspian Sea — a living relic moving through the noise of a fragmented modern world. The composition combines expressive abstraction, symbolic markings, and raw gestural painting to create the feeling of a disappearing ecosystem suspended between memory and collapse.
Part mythological guardian, part endangered being, the beluga… becomes a metaphor for vanishing cultural and natural archetypes of Central Asia. The painting explores themes of extinction, ecological anxiety, ancestral memory, and transformation through a contemporary neo-expressionist visual language.
Painted with energetic brushwork and intuitive symbolism, the work invites the viewer into an emotional landscape where ancient life forms continue to resist disappearance.
In this work, the beluga appears not simply as a fish, but as an ancient spirit of the Caspian Sea — a living relic moving through the noise of a fragmented modern world. The composition combines expressive abstraction, symbolic markings, and raw gestural painting to create the feeling of a disappearing ecosystem suspended between memory and collapse.
Part mythological guardian, part endangered being, the beluga… becomes a metaphor for vanishing cultural and natural archetypes of Central Asia. The painting explores themes of extinction, ecological anxiety, ancestral memory, and transformation through a contemporary neo-expressionist visual language.
Painted with energetic brushwork and intuitive symbolism, the work invites the viewer into an emotional landscape where ancient life forms continue to resist disappearance.
Olzhas Issan
Kazakhstan
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
Olzhas Issan is a painter with a background in architecture and advertising design, drawing on experiences from Kazakhstan, India, and Vietnam. He employs a signature multi-layered technique he calls "internal architecture," merging structural precision with expressive, deconstructed brushwork rooted in Neo-Expressionism and psychological abstraction. His dynamic works explore liminal states of mind and spirit, capturing moments between meditation and motion. Through energetic portrayals of both humans and endangered Central Asian animals, he conveys a sense of mystical transformation and invites viewers to confront and unlock the hidden enigmas within their own perception.
Olzhas Issan
"Beluga"
$5,350
