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My name is
Ibrahim Yassin and I was born in 1967 in Southern
Kurdistan. I am a visual artist and calligrapher based
in Copenhagen.
I am originally educated as a chemistry teacher at Mosul
University in Iraq, but I have always been interested in
visual art ever since I was young. It has been my
passion ever since. In 1990 I exhibited some drawings at
the university like a solo exhibition. It was artworks
created with pencil, ink pen and coloured ballpoints. I
continued with my drawings and calligraphy until 1998,
but for various reasons I had a long break until 2013.
In 2013, I decided to get involved in drawing again and
express my love for ink. Now I mainly draw with ink and
liquid watercolour on paper. I still try to develop and
find new techniques to achieve satisfied results. In my
drawings I express different topics and furthermore
trying to accomplish a personal expression through
dashes, ink stains and shapes.
Sometimes an artwork is created after a long thought
process, and other times the art is created in the
moment when the pen is moved across the white paper. I
prefer to create a composition of different selected
components, making every effort to create a result that
can catch your immediate attention. In our different
lives we place extra attention on certain things and
therefore go into detail with them. Other things are
observed more superficially. In relation to my art there
are surfaces in the drawings that includes great
details, to accomplish a certain depth, while other
surfaces are without much detail. In addition to the
technical stuff about my art I try to express thoughts,
feelings and aesthetics through my drawings.
In some of my drawings I seek to involve the Kurdish
language when a text can be related to the content of
the image. I usually use texts from poems, songs,
sayings and I think that the use of Kurdish characters
gives an extra beauty and meaning to a piece of art. In
the bigger picture, it is inspiring to me that life can
be infused into the characters through their beautiful
graphic shapes, that become more and more beautiful, the
more you look at them.
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