Youth Creativity Forum for woodcarving and oil painting in Damascus Citadel

Damascus-Sana

The Youth Creativity Forum for Wood Carving and Oil Painting provided a rich opportunity for students of the Technical Institute of Applied Arts and a number of its graduates to present their works that they carried out in the Damascus Citadel after ten days of work.

The forum included 10 wood-based sculptural works in large sizes with a variety of styles and themes, and reflected the varying experiences and visions of the participating young sculptors from the institute's graduates over the past ten years, in addition to 12 oil paintings executed by a number of students of the four departments in the institute with topics that varied between nature, portraiture and various human cases in different styles.

Regarding the forum, sculptor Waddah Salameh, director of the institute, said in a statement to SANA .. “The idea of ​​the event was launched with the aim of revitalizing the role of the Damascus Citadel in hosting artistic activities and restoring the Institute’s role in spreading beauty and culture and supporting the Syrian plastic movement through the work of the creative young generation capable of presenting important artistic works and representation. Their country is well represented, ”indicating that the forum will be followed by other activities that the institute will hold.

Sculptor Simaf Hussain, a graduate of 2013, presented in her second participation in the forum a sculpture representing a pregnant woman in a simplistic expressive style, which symbolizes this state of giving among women, considering that the forum provided an opportunity for a meeting of new young talents to get to know each other's visions and experiences.

The sculptor Radwan Basset, a graduate of the institute in 2019, presented a pine wood sculpture representing a dervish who performs the Sky Dance in an expressive style that relies on modification to highlight the softness of the mass and the spirit of work, stressing that the experience was beneficial to him as it is the first of its kind.

The sculptor Cesar Mazoukh, a graduate of 2019, embodied in his sculpture the idea of ​​shackling the human being and the internal conflict in an expressive style by connecting the wooden block with metal wires with burning wood to give a special feeling to the work, considering that the forum is important for all participants, including the competition and exchange of views and ideas.

The work of the sculptor, Jane Ghoneim, a graduate of 2014, came with a duality that embodies the strong relationship between men and women in an expressive manner, and she saw that the forum constitutes a useful case of cooperation between the participants and gives them a beautiful spirit of work.

The sculptor Louay Masri Zada, a graduate of 2019, chose the surrealist method for his sculptural work, which represents a struggle between good and evil, noting the importance of the forum for him as he is participating for the first time in a similar event.

Sculptor Hana Alabbar, a graduate of 2018, addressed the topic of women's pride in an abstract manner that expresses her own atmosphere without going into details. As for the sculptor, Joanna Isole, a graduate of 2018, she presented a sculpture representing women in an expressive style, noting the institute’s initiative and the Ministry of Culture’s support for the establishment of the forum, especially to the youth’s need for it in order to gain the necessary technical expertise. .

The place had the greatest impact on the participants, according to the sculptor Hanan El Hajj, a graduate of 2014, because of their memories, explaining that she presented a sculpture symbolizing the body of a pregnant woman with the head of a bird while giving it the red color to break the stereotypical color of wood.

The student Ayman Marawan from the sculpture department at the institute presented a painting about nature and pointed out that the oil painting workshop during the forum gained him experience in drawing and dealing with oil colors, while the student Lin Abu Samra embodied in her painting a female case in a realistic and expressive style noting the workshop that gained students the information necessary to deal with The painting from the beginning of preparing it for drawing until its end, while student Lynn El Ghawi from the Sculpture Department at the Institute chose the nature of her painting, stressing that the forum gave her the courage to paint and participate in future artistic activities.

Mohammed Samir Tahan