Artists from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt & Pakistan, countries with ongoing conflicts & political unrest, have won 2013 Abraj Capital Art Prize to exhibit their artworks commissioned for Art Dubai 2013 (March 20 – 24) <a href=”https://almahhart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120827-170104.jpg”> The winning artists are: Vartan Avakian (Lebanon), Iman Issa (Egypt), Huma Mulji (Pakistan), Hrair Sarkissian (Syria) and Rayyane Tabet…
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The “Loud & Silent” Contradiction of Reality by Mohammad Rawas
Known for his notorious, loud and expressive artworks, Lebanese artist Mohammad Rawas showed his latest project “The Loud Majority / The Silent Minority” at Beirut Art Fair July 2012. “The Loud Majority / The Silent Minority” is a two plywood panel artworks, each is 130.00 X 120.00 X 4.00 where the artist used Oil, Acrylic, Aluminum,…
International Art Gathering & Local Boost… Welcome to Beirut!
City of cultures and art, freedom and madness, Beirut hosted for 4 days an arab and international artistic celebration where all cultural differences and geographic borders melted for the love of Art under one umbrella called Beirut Art Fair (ME.NA.SA). For the 3rd year in a row, Beirut Art Fair (BAF) 2012 brought together different…
A New Level of Arab Art in Melting Pot
On July 4th Ayyam Gallery Beirut hosted ‘Melting Pot’ a group exhibition featuring 14 artworks by five of the most promising emerging and mid-career abstract and figurative painters from Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. this exhibition will provide an overview of the new wave of contemporary Arab painting presently produced throughout the Middle East and the Diaspora. A…
(I See You) … Acknowledge and Playfully Deny Politics!
(I See You) is a video art by The Freaks; a collaboration Lebanese artists Rima Chahrour and Michel Ayoub, a social-political 1 minute 30 second video will be shown in the VIDEO BOX of Beirut Art Fair (BAF) 2012 amoung other videos-art. “This work presents the violent and non-violent forms of political rejection from an equal…
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