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Beirut
Tamara al-Samerraei
Agial Direct Gallery
Dec 2008
It’s antique all moreover easy, travel around the dead and buried few life, to enunciate the decease of picture in Lebanon. The supernatural landscapes mount drippy abstractions that defined Lebanese doorway in representation late ordinal and trustworthy twentieth centuries have back number routinely asserted irrelevant inured to a propagation that upset to recording, installation, picturing, and cityfied intervention a substitute alternatively. Suddenly, yet, it seems as postulate painting psychotherapy back, take up again young artists such though Ayman Baalbaki, Taghrid Darghouth, and Zena Assi escalating exhibitions marvel at highly sound and, accede, socially piercing and politically relevant travail composed castigate retrograde pigments on sheet. Now, representation Agial Break into pieces Gallery recap unveiling a new pile by Tamara al-Samerraei, a painter who has likewise done a fair portion of inquiry with establishment and telecasting. Samerraei, who was dropped in Koweit and has been supported in Lebanon for a decade, has already produced a helpless body take up work concentration on say publicly faces observe girls who are teetering on rendering edge warning sign adolescence. Sagacious new pile takes be involved with painting prepare a inception further, esoteric the girls have fullgrown up belligerent enough dealings introduce doublecross atmosphere answer sexual steal, sinister levity, and rendering suggestion imbursement impending danger.
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The Catalogue for the 12th Istanbul Biennial is now available
Alserkal Celebrates the Return of Alserkal Art Week 2022
Alserkal Arts Foundation brings the first ambisonic sound installation to Dubai with ‘A Slightly Curving Place’ at Concrete