Damascus-Sana
The exhibition “Damascus, Color and Crafts” transferred Damascus with its houses, lanes and alleys to the lobbies of the exhibition hall in the Arab Cultural Center in Abu Rummaneh.
The paintings of the exhibition, which included the productions of the artists Muhammad Hadid, Muhammad Dabour, and Khouloud Karimou, embodied features in thought and spirit by embodying Sufi dance in paintings and Arabic calligraphy, which belongs to the Levantine school.
Calligrapher Hadid explained to Sana that he participated with 45 paintings, most of them in Thuluth script, in addition to Al-Kufi, Al-Diwani, Al-Maghribi, and others, because he who writes in them is considered one of the sheikhs of calligraphy and of experienced masters due to the difficulty of writing in it, pointing to his followers of the Levantine School in calligraphy, which considered the calligrapher Badawi Dirani among the founders It is distinguished by its softness and spirituality and differs from other Persian, Turkish and other schools.
The plastic artist, Mohamed Dabour, participated in 20 oil-colored paintings that included the Damascene and Mawlawi houses and the Arabic calligraphy. He showed that he painted the neighborhoods of Damascus in the realist school due to the need to document the place in a historical sense because Al-Fayhaa is a city of civilization and history and we must document it, referring to his merging of the Sufi paintings with the formations of three types of lines to inspire the soul Sufism by painting.
Kholoud Karimou, a poet and artist, referred to her participation in expressive oil paintings from the brutal school that relied on color and line to appear as a piece of music that affects the recipient and reflects within him certain feelings, pointing out that what distinguishes the painting is that it is stronger than the poem because the artist and the painting meet in conveying the idea while the poem conveys feelings Through words.
Wassim Mobaide, Director of Culture in Damascus, explained that the Directorate is working to support all artistic initiatives that celebrate our country and its heritage, especially Damascus, place, thought and heritage, pointing to the Ministry of Culture’s interest in tangible and intangible heritage and working to revive it.
Artist Rabab Ahmed, head of the Cultural Center in Abu Rummaneh, explained that the participating artists expressed their works on Damascus, the place, the beauty, the civilization and the history, whether in the Arabic calligraphy of Sheikh Kar, this craft by Muhammad Hadid, or with the paintings of plastic art by the artists Dabour and Karimo.
Bilal Ahmad