Lawrishabibi Gallery

ACT & APPLICATION

Group Exhibition of Six International Artists

From six contemporary artist around the world, I have mostly enjoyed the work done by: “David Rickard (b. New Zealand, 1975) examines our relationship to space in architectural forms. With the wok Exhaust, he tests his respiratory requirements on a space during one 24 hour period, capturing every outbreath without sleep or rest in large foil balloons. working in collaboration with photographer Manuel Vason, images were captured throughout the process, recording the totemic rise of 98 balloons as they accumulated. here Rickard uses photography purely as an outsourced documentary record of a transitory performance.  David Rickard studied architecture at the Auckland School of Architecture in New Zealand, before studying art at Brera Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan and Central Saint Martins, London. “

      

Ayyam Gallery

THE YOUNG COLLECTORS AUCTION

Art from the Middle East

“Syria’s Apex Generation highlights post-uprising art as an introduction to the rich history of painting in Syria. Featuring the works of Abdul Karim Majdal Al-Beik, Nihad Al Turk, Othman Moussa, Mohannad Orabi and Kais Salman, the exhibition ans its accompanying publication explore a new school of painting in the mindest of expansion despite the disintegration of Damascus at scene, its original center. Building on the aesthetics currents set in emotion by pioneers in the late 1950s, the included painters navigate the magnitude of the Syrian conflict with allegory, satire, and realism in works that hint at the influence of preceding modern and contemporary artists such as Louay Kayyali, Fateh Moudarres, Moustafa Fathi, Saad Yagan, and Safwan Dahoul. Informed by extensive traditions of expressionism,  symbolism, and abstraction, this burgeoning group has forged ahead with the creative objectives of their predecessors, who advocated the social relevance of art.

Majdal AL- Beik, Al Turk, Moussa, Orabi, and Salman were first brought together through thr Shabab Ayyam incubator program for youg artists in 2007 and quickly became part of a tight-knit intellectual circle that was crucial to their development. Today, although scattared betwenn Damascus, Beirut, and Dubai, they are collectively extending the boundaries of representation and perceived functions of art that have shaped Syrian visual culture for over sixty years.”

      

      

Work by Othman Moussa