Aleppo-Sana
Today, the Al-Assad Gallery of Fine Arts in Aleppo hosted the exhibition “The Oyster Alphabet” by plastic artist Khaldoun Al-Ahmad, which included 35 lettering panels in which the blue sea color was used as a symbol of calm, love and love for the vocabulary of the sea, and its letters were decorated with the beauty and composition of oysters.
In a statement to SANA correspondent, Al-Ahmad explained that the aim of the exhibition is to spread the aesthetics of the Arabic letter, monitor beauty and employ it formally within the rhythm of color on this white space, indicating that he worked on formations that rise to the status of the Arabic letter through the rhythm movement of the letter to depart from the atmosphere of calligraphy and monitor formative sentences in the vocabulary of the letter Arabic and its beauty within the rhythm of a symphonic music.
A number of plastic artists expressed their views on the works of the artist Al-Ahmad, as Ahmed Nassif, head of the Plastic Artists Union branch in Aleppo, considered that this exhibition is a new experiment in altering Arabic calligraphy and in its use of the blue color that served his artwork, pointing out that each painting differs from the other to convey a message to the recipient that Arabic calligraphy still exists and is a symbol of language and originality.
For his part, artist Bashar Barazi pointed out that Al-Ahmad is renewed in his paintings, as he benefits from calligraphy as a plastic painting rather than as a legible Arabic calligraphy, with his focus on the subject of the point in his works with its connotation in art, considering that Al-Ahmad is one of the artists who mastered the art of Arabic calligraphy by inserting it on a painting and trying to camouflage Font as much as possible to be used as a visual case rather than a legible indication.
The artist Salma Al-Sheikh Hamo saw that Al-Ahmad possesses his own style and school by adding his touch to surrealist art, while the head of the Exhibitions Committee of the Plastic Artists Union branch, Ibrahim Daoud, confirmed that the exhibition resulted from a state of development of the Arabic calligraphy of the artist several years ago, where he used it in the way of decoration and artistic formation Presenting abstract artistic paintings vocabulary of the Arabic letter.
A number of visitors to the exhibition expressed their admiration for the paintings of the artist, as the visitor Dalal Al-Ahmad stated, “By keeping up with the artist’s exhibitions, I touched with him the love of the Arabic letter and his tendencies for the Arabic alphabet, while Muhammad Awad emphasized the beauty of the paintings in which he focused on the art of the lettering and the shape of the letter that gave elegance and beauty to the works. Meanwhile, visitor Manal Al-Khawja considered that the paintings are beautiful, with their oil colors reflecting the artist's culture and expressing his creativity.
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