The works of the artist and the freed prisoner Muhammad Al-Raqou’i in an exhibition in Aleppo

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The plastic artist and the liberated captive, Muhammad Al-Raqoui, presented 49 of his works to the audience of the city of Aleppo during the exhibition hosted by Al-Khanji Gallery of Fine Arts.

The exhibition, which was held in cooperation between the Directorate of Aleppo Culture and the Union of Plastic Artists, through which the kneeling artist sought to present a variety of topics from the environment in Palestine and Syria through many artistic schools of surrealism, cubism and realism in a different way and his own. They reflect society, life, art and show the beauty around us.

Director of Aleppo Culture Jaber Al-Sajour, in turn, explained that this exhibition celebrates Mother’s and Women’s Days and the March holidays and includes symbolic paintings bearing national and heritage contents from the reality we live in, noting the ancient experience of the kneeling artist who came to Aleppo under these circumstances to present his paintings, which in his opinion achieves blending and knowledge of the city’s artists. Especially the young ones.

The artist Ibrahim Daoud, Secretary of the Aleppo Branch of the Union of Plastic Artists, indicated that the kneeling artist mixed in his compositions between symbolism and a surreal vision that contains a bit of imagination, using the old houses and doors in Palestine, deriving the units of the basic elements from the atmosphere of that country from the olive tree, orange, women, their suffering and the issue of a city Occupied Jerusalem.

Among the visitors to the exhibition, the artist Khaldoun Al-Ahmad pointed out the importance of these exhibitions, which enrich the plastic movement in the city of Aleppo and offer different experiences and provide an intellectual and artistic exchange, in addition to viewing a variety of plastic products, pointing out that the exhibition’s paintings celebrate love and land and expressive cases of the faces of oriental women, in addition to the artist’s use of oriental mosaics.

It is noteworthy that the plastic artist, Muhammad al-Raqou’i, born in the Gaza Strip in 1950, held his first art exhibition in Gaza in 1970. He was arrested by the Israeli occupation in 1973 on charges of participating in guerrilla actions. He remained in captivity until 1985. He resided in Damascus since his liberation, practicing his artistic work, and was elected as a member of the Administrative Board of the Union of Fine Artists. The Palestinians branch of Syria more than once.

Zainab Chahoud