Human Nature

By Hisham Echafaki

£3,200.00

Acrylic on canvas

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This painting, titled Human Nature, is a visually explores themes of identity, mortality, and the impact of humanity on the natural world. The composition features a grid of nine skulls, each uniquely adorned with symbolic imagery and rendered in vibrant colors. The imagery overlaid on the skulls, such as logos and symbols, references cultural, societal, and political themes, offering a commentary on the complexities of human existence and influence.

A particularly compelling detail is that one of the skulls is not human but that of a gorilla. This substitution serves as a poignant statement on endangered species and the fragile connection between humanity and the animal kingdom highlighting the devastating effects of human activities on biodiversity and the survival of other species.

Additional information

Weight 1.5 kg
Dimensions 55 × 60 cm

Hisham Echafaki

A self-taught multidisciplinary artist, known for his surrealist paintings and sculptures, Hisham Echafaki has been exhibiting internationally since 2012. Between realism and surrealism, his artworks transport us into a universe where the beauty and diversity of fauna and flora are celebrated in all their patterns and colours, blurring the boundaries between the real and the imaginary. Without being moralising, they become the medium for a potential narrative from which a fiction or an analysis of the animal’s status in a declining nature, threatened by human activity, can be constructed.

While paying tribute to ecological diversity, his art sensitively and poetically, sometimes with dark humour, tackles themes of habitat destruction and artificialisation, pollution, and the overexploitation of natural resources.

In 2015, Hisham presented his solo exhibition ‘Lusus Naturae’ in London with Butterfly Art News. In 2016, he created works for the prestigious Donmar Warehouse theatre company in London, which were exhibited in several programs.

In parallel, he has participated in numerous exhibitions with Opera Gallery in Paris, London, Dubai, and also regularly exhibits at contemporary art fairs with Saatchi Art in Los Angeles, Bristol, and London.

In 2019, Hisham Echafaki created a monumental 13-meter work on the façade of the Musée de la Poste in Paris to celebrate its reopening after six years of renovations.

In 2022, the Museum Jean Larcena in Val d’Ocre held a monographic exhibition dedicated to him titled Mirabilia Naturae.

In December 2023, Hisham signed an artistic collaboration with the international jewellery brand Pandora for their Christmas collection ‘Love Unboxed,’ designing a pendant as well as creating a temporary immersive art installation in London.

In May 2024, he presents a retrospective of his art at the Cultural Centre of Joigny with over 50 paintings and sculptures and creates a mural for the Music Conserva of the town.

His works are present in several private and public collections in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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