Damascus-SANA
With forty-five paintings, artist Kinda Maarouf opened her first solo exhibition at Zawaya Gallery in Damascus, in a style that is closer to expressionism, but with simple impressionist touches.
The works of the exhibition, which continues until the eighth of this month, varied in size with the predominance of large size on it, and with its unique feminine sense, it chose topics concerned with women within multiple human cases that express them honestly and poetically.
We find the human face in general, and the woman in particular, the main feature that the plastic artist considered the most important element in life, as she was composed and harmonized with nature and the surrounding environment within a combination of revelations and expressive dialogues.
The diversity of sizes was accompanied by the multiplicity of techniques used in oil colors on canvas and wood, as well as the collage and the only print.
In a statement to SANA, the plastic artist said, "I regret my delay in setting up my own solo exhibition, and I always told myself that I could do the best, but as long as the artist presented his paintings, the recipient interacted with them and captured his admiration, it is definitely the best."
Maarouf left her exhibition untitled and her feelings open to the imagination of the recipient, as in the case of her paintings, which painted their meanings over four years, which challenged the war in its prime times to show that art and literature remain for Syria to win by using different colors that ranged from the intensity of joy, melancholy and sadness in a few of them, but it imposed hope on the largest number.
It is noteworthy that the plastic artist Kinda Maarouf, born in Damascus in 1976, graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1999. She is a doctor at the private universities of Damascus and Yarmouk and holds the position of Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts. She participated in several group exhibitions inside and outside Syria, the last of which was in Bulgaria.
Amani Farooj
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