Damascus-Sana
The fall exhibition of Syrian plastic art surprised its session this year, the fans of the formation and its fans, with a great surge in the number and quality of the participating works, the attendance of large and ancient names, the use of new methods, and avoiding the direct embodiment of the terrorist war and its effects.
The exhibition, which was opened today in Khan Asaad Pasha in Damascus, and held by the Ministry of Culture within the activities of the Syrian Plastic Art Days, said Tawfiq Al-Imam, Associate Minister of Culture, in a press statement: “The volume of posts in the exhibition was very large, including 215 works chosen by a committee that included artists from the Faculty of Fine Arts And the union of plastic artists to remain for this exhibition, which extends from the fifties of the last century, aesthetic and to take the plastic art an important role in our daily life.
The plastic artist George Ashi saw in a statement to SANA that the autumn exhibition is a picture of the Syrian artists meeting with each other and showing their works, noting that this year’s session has achieved a qualitative leap with its varied works, from seriousness to calm presentation and the search for beauty, where he participated in a painting containing meditation, surprise and refraction as a summary of experience the war.
The sculptor Ziyad Qat expressed his surprise at the level of good works in the exhibition, whether photography, sculpture, style of presentation or heavy attendance and the embrace of Khan Asaad Pasha to bring out the autumn exhibition in this beautiful suit, despite what we went through, noting that he presented a sculpted wood material derived from the ancient Syrian civilization and its mixes And its beauty.
The artist, Aksam Talaa, described the fall exhibition as the culmination of an entire plastic year at the national and human level, and allows the artist to monitor his experience and the extent of its development in front of his colleagues and the public within an event that celebrates the values of beauty and life, explaining that he presented a painting entitled a family notebook in which he drew to experimentation using the line as a graphic value within a world of photography In order to achieve a new visual understanding and blend graphic values in new worlds of methods.
The plastic artist Osama Diab indicated that the fall exhibition has become an essential part of the Syrian plastic scene and is a summary of the experiences of our artists, considering that this session presented good, valuable and very beautiful and modern works in which contemporary without the lack of local visual identity where he participated in the painting "Witnesses in a City" about gray people and not Influential, and through it, he was deeply affected by the war on Syria and its repercussions.
In turn, the visual artist Ghazi Kassouh spoke about the distinction of this year’s session from its previous ones, as we are marching to victory with the return of many artists to their homes and the return of senior artists to participate in the exhibition as well as a distinguished presence of young artists, which contributed to the emergence of new plastic schools that benefited from the experience of the war, pointing out that He participated in a sculpture entitled "palpation", which is an expressive, expressive work that contains many visions, details and lines, and reflects human forms that call for love and encounter.
Fine artist Moufida El-Dioub saw that the exhibition held a great diversity this year between sculpture, photography, graphics, engraving, and school styles between expressive, realism, abstraction and surrealism for senior artists and young people, which shows the ability of our artists to give despite all the circumstances, indicating that her painting came under the title "time and place" and deals with people who lived the stage Difficult and eroding the place around them and their insistence on sticking to it.
Young plastic artist Nora Salloum considered his participation in the exhibition an important matter providing him with more experience, indicating that he participated in a painting depicting a clothes-washing scene within a formative framework in which he used various techniques of oil and coal to add vitality to the painting and achieve the element of saturation in it.
Samer al-Shughri
