Hussein Madi was born in 1938 in Chabaa, a border village at the foot of Mount Hermon in South Lebanon.

Painter, sculptor and engraver, he received his initial training at ALBA. Subsequently, he went to Rome where he enrolled at the Academia di Belle Arte and at the Academia di San Jacomo. 

In Rome he did advanced research into the cultural heritage of the Arabic East and of Egypt. He went back to Lebanon and taught sculpture and engraving at the institute of Fine Arts of 
the Lebanese University and, from 1958 to 1962, at ALBA. Since 1964 Madi has been living 
between Beirut and Rome. He has been exhibiting in Europe since 1965.

 The Italian critic Joseph Silvaggi writes about Madi: "His drawings are filled with symbols and rich with artistic conventions in simplified forms; they are an enchanted script, a résumé of figurative art, the art of modern man."



 Hussein Madi makes use of the art of calligraphy, today consisting of symbols, which were originally pictograms. Madi tries to take these symbols back to the time when writing was half-picture, half-symbol. He has thus reconciled the real, represented by a partial image, with the symbolic, connected with the inner life of man. Between these two poles, he has built marvelous worlds, the realistic one, which binds man to the earth and the symbolic one binding man to his conception of the world. In this manner, he satisfies both the eye and the mind at the same time.


With exceptional power, Madi outlines a silhouette of man on the entire surface of the canvas with two quick strokes of his large brush. A vertical line and a curved one make up the frame of this stylized painting. The features of his characters are those of the Oriental man clearly showing his cultural heritage. In their attitudes, two expressions are found: a static one which shows permanence in the face of the transitory, and the deep Oriental faith in immortality and eternal rest, and also a facial expression of cruel irony, playing the part of the mask in the Greek tragedy or an expression of suffering through stiff posture, like the loud outburst of a horrible cry, the terrible roar of the Assyrian lioness dragging along her crushed rump. This rending roar personifies the cry of Humanity. 

 In Hussein Madi statues, one finds a creative power, which translates human feelings. It already existed in the Oriental artistic heritage and has started again to play its civilizing role in the art of today.

Publications:



"The Art of Madi", 2004, Al-Saqi Publisher
E. Benezit, Grund 1999, Volume 8, page 945

Born in Zakak Al Blat, Beirut - Lebanon in 1942

Jouni received his Diploma in Drawing and Painting from the Lebanese Academy of fine arts, Beirut in 1964, and a Diploma in Drawing and Painting from the Foster Academy of Fine Arts, Valencia (Spain) in 1965.

His canvases are expressed in multiple languages; with total candor he sets forth the multiple movements of his self, in the manner of very great artists who act only on the prompting of some inner transport, an inspiration coming from the depths of his faculties and his innermost impulses. There, he also records the sensation he has of the weight of irremediable anguish born of solitude and the violent desire for a universe on whose threshold fear would stop.

Born in 14 of May 1948 in Bayssour, in the Chouf region of Lebanon, where he lives and works.

Molaeb started his artistic career in the seventies, after training under renowned artists such as Chafic Abboud and Paul Guiragossian at the Fine Arts Institute of the Lebanese University, from which he graduated in 1972.

Craving further discoveries and exposure to the world, he spent a year visiting Algeria and, in 1984, enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts program at New York’s Pratt Institute, to later obtain a PhD degree in Art Education from the University of Ohio in 1979.

Visual artist Magda Chaaban seeks to instill hope and inspire people to see Lebanon’s capital Beirut through her eyes during these trying times.

Chaaban is a Lebanese-American painter, sculptor, and author. She told Al Arabiya English in an interview that art was very important to Lebanese society. Aside from being a vessel for driving change, art depicts history in a way that history book cannot, she said.

“It is a communication through images and colors, which maybe brings some hope for people. It preserves what historical records cannot, like for example, a story behind a painting can describe how it felt to exist in a particular place at a particular time, it’s like writing history.”

She continued, “I see that this is much more important for generations later when they see art during this period of time, maybe they can understand much better than [if they] read a history book about what happened at that moment in time.”

Raouf Rifai was born in Lebanon in 1954.

He lives and works in Beirut. He has a Ph.D, in Urban Planning from the Sorbonne in Paris and teaches art at the University of Lebanon.

Rifai has taken part in numerous Collective shows in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Japan. He has also had more than fifteen solo exhibitions since 1984. In 2010, he was awarded the first prize of the Sursock Museum’s Salon d’automne in Beirut. Raouf Rifai has been successfully auctioned at Christies Dubai in 2011.

Born in Baalbeck, Lebanon, Mazen El Rifai has studied in Lebanon and Italy.

He holds a Diploma degree, which he got from Marceta-Italy in 1974, and a Diploma of high study in "Decoration Arts" from the Lebanese University (Interior Design).

He practiced architecture and interior painting , from 1981 to 2005 and participated in many solo exhibitions and group shows in Lebanon and abroad.

Workshop leader at the Beaux Arts, he left teaching to devote himself to architecture and painting. He never stopped painting his hometown and source of inspiration, Baalback. His work is characterized by transparency and luminosity and it captures an interpretation of feelings.

Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1946, Hrair Diarbekirian attended the Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts. A staple of the Lebanese art scene since 1961, he has exhibited extensively in the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the Americas. He is the recipient of several awards, including gold medals from the Sursock Museum in Lebanon and the Sao Paolo International Biennial.

He has paintings housed in the collections of both statesmen and celebrities, most notably among the private holdings of Queen Elizabeth II of England, Prince Rainier of Monaco and actor Kirk Douglas.

Characterized by a soft, warm palette that is accentuated with delicate brushwork, his work often explores scenes from ancient mythology, employing grand icAyyam Auctions ... Displaying 764 of 1279 characters.

Born in Beirut in 1964, contemporary artist Silwan Ibrahim is renowned for his playful figures and his vibrant and flamboyant colourful compositions. After studying architecture for three years, he switched his major to Fine Arts and graduated in 1990 from the Lebanese University, National Institute of Fine Art. His unique art, styled with figures and geometric shapes, portrays an unusual vision enrapturing us out of this world. Although his paintings are full of wit and humour, they also praise philosophical ideas. His rich imagination fills the canvas with scenes that seem right out of storytelling and fairy tales books.

Painter, illustrator and architect, Benoit Debbane is born in Beirut in 1974 and raised by a family of artists. In 1991, as soon as the war ends, he first emerges as a graffiti artist in the streets of his beloved hometown. Later on, he studies architecture at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux Arts (ALBA), a discipline in which he will not work, but will heavily impact his aesthetics and composition. Instead, he kicks off his carreer as a freelance illustrator/comic artist for various local magazines-notably Aishti Magazine (2004-2009), newspapers (notably L'Orient le-lour (1997-today)) and reputable advertisement agencies. Later on, Benoit will also teach the art of illustration at the Lebanese American University (LAU) and digital art at ALBA. As a painter, Benoit holds many sold out solo shows to his account, mainly exhibited at ART LOUNGE BEIRUT (2008-2014). Following this period, Benoit is forced to recluse due to a health challenge. Yet, he remains active through commissioned works and his participation to collective art auctions, both local and international In June 2019, Benoit makes his comeback with a successful solo show OUGA! OUGA! at GALERIE CHERIFF TABET before entering an exclusive 3-year representation by the same gallery (ended April 2022). Today, with the pandemic and unprecedented local Lebanese crisis alike having heavily impacted and saturated the -art- market in Lebanon, Benoit sees a momentum in finally dedicating to seriously explore new horizons such as the regional Arab and international art scenes. Although continuously evolving into more and more abstract forms, Benoit's art has kept its essence alive through splashes of signature neon colors and irreverent doodles that remind us of his street art debuts. His art can be qualified as playful, subtly satirical, and sometimes provocative, as it explores the contradictions and absurdities of the crazy world we live in, through the eyes of a child who refuses to grow up. And for a valid reason.

Born in 1995 in Lebanon.

At age 10, Marc moved to Dresden - Germany with his family. Aside from being born in an artistic family, Germany introduced him to a world of masters in art.  As a young artist, he believed that every artist is born with his own style, he followed the teachings of art history, learning from the great masters. He was inspired by Peter Paul Rubens, Leonardo Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Albrecht Durer, William Turner, Botticelli and so on.

“One of the reasons I paint is because I am surrounded with an artistic family and I have been raised in my father’s studio.

Many artists have inspired me, such as the renaissance artists or even modern artists.

I express my self through my art”.

Aram Jughian

Aram Jughian is a Lebanese-Armenian artist born in 1959. He is self taught and has been exhibiting his artwork since 1975.

Artist Statement

I project all my life in my art, paintings or drawings. My emotions, my desires, my frustrations, my family... everything is there... I live in each one of them.

My paintings aren’t just images, they are the fruit of the nature. Since I live in the nature, my painting becomes a tree …Just as the trunk and branches overlap gradually, masked by the foliage, my personality is a root, a trunk, a branch, that my work covers gradually with each brushstroke. Until the fabric becomes the image of the tree: an image of itself that carries all of its foundations invisible to the naked eye.

These paintings, the fruits of nature, perfectly ripe, call to be picked

Individual exhibitions:

-      Hotel Mzar (Faraya) 1978

-      Rumours Art Gallery 1987, 1991

-      Kulturzentrum 1992

-      Russian Cultural Center 1990

-      Platform Gallery 1991, 1992

-      Galerie Epreuve d’Artiste 1991, 1992, 1993

-      De Mette Gallery 1994

-      Art et Culture 1995

-      Galerie Janine Rubeiz 1996, 1997, 2002, 2005

-      L’Entretemps 1998

-      L’Espace S.D. 1999, 2000

-      M’ars Museum Art Gallery Moscow 2001

Collective exhibitions (some of them):

Le point, Galerie Chahine, Mouvement Culturel, Galleria, Balloune Public Garden, Sanaye Public Garden (sculpture), Lebanese American University (LAU) – Abstract painting in Lebanon (exhibition and book), Galleries Alwan, Epreuve d’Artiste, l’Entretemps, Maraya, Portfolio, Anthologie, INSEAT, Centre Culturel Français

(CCF), Lebanon, The Artist’s View II in London 2004, Art sud, Chatelet, Paris, 2004, Gallery One, Dubai, 2004 (permanent exhibition), EAE Gallery, Leiden (Netherlands), 2005, Anne Guillet (Paris), M’ars (Moscow), La Fontaine Bahrein, Al-Sharjah, Qatar.

Other activities:

-      Biennale Al-Sharjah 1997

-      Since 1988 he has been present at the “Salon d’automne” in Sursock Museum

-      Since 1994 he is a member (sociétaire) in the Musée Nicolas Sursock

-      He has realized a large mural (14 x 3 meters) for the Public Work Ministery

-      He has paintings in the Ministery of Culture

-      He has a painting in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow

-      Gallery One Dubai (opening) 2004

-      Qatar with the collaboration of the Ministery of Culture 2010

-      Gallery Sultan in Kuweit City 2006, 2007

-      He has paintings in Sursock Museum in Beirut, permanent exhibition

-      He has paintings in Galerie Janine Rbeiz and Galerie Ajial (both in Beirut) 2007

-      Paintings in museums and private collections in London, Los Angeles,

-      Washington, Moscow, Cologne, Rotterdam, Paris, Leiden, Jakarta

Artist Charles Khoury was born in Lebanon in 1966 and graduated from ALBA in 2005. He teaches Fine Arts at the Saint Joseph School Antoura. He is a member of the Salon d’Automne of the Sursock Museum, the International Association of Fine Arts - Unesco in Paris, and the Association of Lebanese Artists. His art is a mixture of intertwined primal shapes and playful colours. His work has been displayed in solo and group exhibitions in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Kuwait, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Ivory Coast, Bangladesh, UK and France. In 2008, the Nicolas Sursock Museum in Beirut granted him the “Special Jury Award”, and he won the “Artist Residency: Lithography workshop” in Morocco in 2013.

Born in Syria, Al Hasakeh 19/1/1973.

 Adam is a self- made plastic artist who built his career depending on his own effort. He started from his country and headed to enter the plastic art world, and today his art became an independent school that has its own Orwellian nature and his art works are shown in the most important museums and deep-routed galleries.

His colored characters are formed in a violent way that indicates to deep rebel psychologies that exceeded the entire impressionist and pictorial school techniques, which sometimes fail to express themselves.

Born in Baghdad in 1974

Lives and works in Baghdad , Iraq

Educations:

2000 Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baghdad

1996 Diploma of the Institute of Fine Arts, Baghdad

Memberships :

Iraqi Artists Association

Member of the Society of Plastic Iraqis

Member brings of Plastic Iraqis

Solo Exhibition :

2009 Solo exhibition on the KAWAF Gallery, Aleppo

2008 Solo exhibition at the KAWAF Gallery, Aleppo

Art Fair:

2022 Egypt INT'L Art Fair

Group Exhibitions :

2022 Square trip..Hall F 3. France, Paris

2022 Participant in Al-Wasiti Fine Arts Festival, Baghdad

2021 Bagdada Art Gallery Selection of Iraqi Art, Baghdad

2021 The Gallery, Baghdad .

2021 Albahie , Modern Albahie Gallery Modern Contemporary Art Doha, QatarArt Doha, Qatar

2017 Union des artistes plasticiens tunisiens Iraqi modern art exhibition, Tunisia

2017 Window for life art exhibition, Rome

2018 Participant at Arab Gathering For Fine Art, Doha - Qatar

2017 Group exhibition in the International Festival of Italy on the displaced. Window of Life . With a group of Iraqi artists

2016 Group exhibition with a group of Iraqi artists on the National Council for Culture and the Arts Hall of Kuwait, Kuwait

2016 Group exhibition of a group of Iraqi artists on the Metz museum North of France

2016 Iraqi contemporary art exhibition. Beirut. Lebanon

2015 Group Exhibition 12 +1 Iraqis Fine Association. Baghdad

2015 Annual exhibition of the Iraqi Association of Fine Artists. Baghdad

2013 Baghdad Global Forum of Fine Arts. Baghdad is the capital of Arab culture

2013 Group exhibition of three artists (the phenomena) on the orbits of hall

2013 Group exhibition with thirty artists of different nationalities under the auspices of the Iraqi Cultural Center, Washington

2011 Participate in a workshop with the group of artists Iraqis, Syrians and Palestinians in the hall Mustafa Ali, Damascus

2011 Group exhibition with a group of Iraqi artists ( artists in exile) main gallery California. United States of America

2010 Group exhibition (Iraqi culture days) Khan Asaad Pasha. Damascus

2010 Group exhibition group Iraqi artists (colors from Iraq) Khan Asaad Pasha.Damascus

2010 Group exhibition (Mesopotamia) in the lounge domes. Abu Dhabi

2010 Many of the posts in the Department of Arts in Baghdad

2010 Group exhibition Contemporary Iraqi Art in Doha in Qatar Fine Arts Society, Qatar

2009 Gallery of Art entitled Iraqi diaspora (prospect) Hotel four seasons, Damascus ,Sponsored by the Canadian Embassy

2009 Group exhibition group Iraqi artists (shifts) of Damascus

2008 Group exhibition at the Arab Cultural Center in Mazza, Damascus

2007 Entitled to challenge the use of Hall of Visions in Damascus

2007 Joint exhibition held by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Damascus

2005 joint exhibition with Syrian artists on Gallery Free hand, Damascus

2004 Joint exhibition with Syrian artists on Gallery Free hand, Damascus

1999 Gallery gathering of Arab youth in Cairo

Awards :

2021 Recipient of the Iraqi Creativity Award Baghdad

2015 First prize. Competition in the (Saudi Center for Fine Arts) of Fine Arts. II, Jeddah

2013 Certificate of appreciation from the Iraqi Cultural Center in Washington. United States of America

2011 Certificate of merit. Organization High Commissioner for Refugees (as a refugee on the World) Damascus

2010 Certificate of appreciation Association Qatar Fine Arts. Art gallery of contemporary Iraqi Doha

2010 Certificate of appreciation from the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts Department, Baghdad Global Forum of Fine Arts

2010 Certificate of appreciation and Iraqi Ministry of Culture. Exhibition day of Iraqi culture. Damascus

1999 Certificate of appreciation Gallery gathering of Arab youth. Cairo

Layla Dagher is born in Beirut, Lebanon. Studied at Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts and earned her diploma in Visual Arts with honors degree.

She teaches fine arts at NDU and AKU universities.

Her art has been showcased in various exhibitions. Recently she exhibits at Carré D'Artistes Beirut.

She is a member of the syndicate of Lebanese artists.

Her art is figurative and recently she works on cities landscape using mixed media with playful colours.

Born in Beirut in 1983, Ihad Ahmad graduated in Visual Communication Art from the Lebanese University. He also took part in several workshops in silkscreen printing, painting and drawing.

In 2016 he founded "Beirut Art Studio", a space dedicated to teaching art to children and adults.

Ihab's work is diverse. In addition to acrylic and collage on canvas, he creates metal and wood sculptures with a contemporary flare. Ihab developed a symbiotic relationship with his intriguing natural symbols such as fish, eyes, trees, and man-made symbols like patterns and geometric forms, all of which emerged as an intense and bright abstraction. This connection is entrenched in his determination to defy his childhood memories of war. His joyful art and affinity with color became a refuge as well as a powerful message of optimism. Every work has the potential to reveal the artist’s psyche and ultimately transcends it. The symbols elaborated on his canvas trigger the imagination of the viewer, a dialogue with the surreal, and an open ended horizon of contemplation and decoding.

Maha Mahfouz is a talented Lebanese Artist whose work is deeply rooted in strong Middle Eastern traditions but draws contemporary inspiration from her diverse experiences that come from living in a variety of countries and being exposed to an array of richly deep cultures.She was always fascinated by the city life with all its advantages and disadvantages whether in Beirut her home country or in Dubai her second home where she resides now Initially working as an Interior designer, her travels across Australia, Singapore, Egypt and a 3 year stay in Indonesia , sparked a growth of inspiration within her, fueled by the local art scene. She learnt to use a variety of new mediums to express her message, from drawing on silk in Indonesia, to oil painting, to finally find her passion for acrylic media, combined sometimes with collage and paper cuts from magazines.Inspired by culture and real-life emotions, her art has been described as “the kind of art driven by experiences.” Her paintings cover the full gamut of human emotion, and wherever they may be on that vast spectrum, they are given the same depth of feeling and expression within her carefully crafted artwork, no matter the medium or channel.Since the early days, her main passion has always been painting and pencil drawing, This is what drove her to pursue her dream and further learn the art of technical drawing and painting courses in Lebanon while she was preparing for her BA in Interior Design from the Lebanese American University in 1990 , where she had great teachers, the likes of the well-known artist Rached Bohsali. In 2004 she relocated to Dubai with her family and her journey with Art started.In that same year she staged a collective exhibition in Jumeirah 1, under Lebanese women’s work ,with media coverage and in 2006 she joined the collective group exhibition MOSAÏC at the Dubai Ladies Club. 2006 was a busy year not only with her aforementioned exhibitions, but also with her paintings being displayed and sold at the prestigious gallery OBEGI HOME since their opening in Dubai. This collaboration with OBEGI , led in 2007 for her to be assigned by NAKHEEL developement to provide all paintings for their showhouse in Jumeirah Park. This collaboration with OBEGI lasted for seven years where she sold most of her paintings and artwork. Since 2019, part of her works now reside in well known online gallery ,The Gallerist Beirut Art in Lebanon.

Bechir is a Syrian artist whose works explore the intersection between Arabic calligraphy and expressive abstract colors. He works by dissecting aspects of everyday life and reinterpreting them through his own artistic expressions.

Former president of the Syrian Plastic Artists Union, Bechir is very active in his hometown and the regional art scene.

Born in Baghdad – Iraq in 1968.

Nehme graduated from university holding a BA degree in 1992.

He exhibited in many solo and group shows in Beirut, Dubai, Damascus, Prague, Paris, Washington, London, Dubai, Kuwait, and Tunis.

He currently lives and works in Beirut – Lebanon.

Ne’mah belongs to a generation of artists who turned to visual artists amid fear and suffering. Ne’mah’s journey as an artist began with the rise of Saddam Hussien’s attempts for totalitarian control of Iraq’s destiny. This dramatic reality, filled with oppression and hatred was challenging and confusing to a whole generation of artists, providing fodder to an insightful wave of contemporary Iraqi art. 

Born in Damascus in 1951, Ali Mourabet has lived in Beirut with his family for the greater part of his life. An architect since 1976, he has a long-running passion for designing buildings, and as a professional artist since 1977, a love for depicting scenes from Lebanon, and this is reflected in much of his work.

Regarding both architecture and painting as forms of art, Mourabet is never without a pencil or a paintbrush in his hand and to this day continues to experiment with new processes and techniques, especially in more recent years, having freed up more time to focus on his fine art practice.

The consistent theme running through Mourabet’s captivating paintings is their extremely vibrant color palette. With many of his works presenting simplistic geometric shapes and architectural forms and others depicting everyday life in his immediate surroundings, Mourabet is continuously seeking to explore different styles and techniques, while at the same time remaining faithful to the subjects closest to his heart.

Born in Aleppo, Syria in 1964

A member of the Syrian Fine Arts Union in Damascus, Kleig graduated from Fathi Mohamed Fine Arts Center, Aleppo in 1988.

At four years old, he started painting and discovering the secrets of colors. In his elementary school, his teacher use to call him “the little Picasso”, and because he has never heard of “Picasso” at that time, he thought it was a bad word!

He graduated with a Chemistry degree but he never worked in its domain. Instead, he started painting in Aleppo before moving to Lattakia and then to Beirut in 1995, the city that hold Kleige’s dream and offered him a lot to start with.

Born in Damascus in 1990

Kawa has a degree in Interior Architecture from the Fine Arts Department at the Damascus University and is a member of the Syrian Plastic Artist’s Union.

Kawa has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Beirut, Syria and Germany. Her works can be found in the collections of many significant art patrons both regionally and internationally.

Born in Syria in 1990, Ehab Zein Eddine graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts – Painting Department – Damascus University in 2013.

He has an experience in Design & Exhibitions at the Arab Cultural Centre (Syria) and at the Art Lab Gallery (Lebanon). He designed packages for Admirable Group in Hungary.

Born in Damascus, Syria in 1985.

Mahmoud was taught by a professional artist  Salam Omar (he  worked with him professionally in Damascus then in Beirut after moving to Lebanon as for the events developed in Syria). 

He descended from an artistic family, and this gave him an opportunity to listen and to draw closer to the artistic atmosphere by following up exhibitions held in Syria & Lebanon, and looking at the experiences of  these artists,  both Syrians and Iraqis, as well as Lebanese and foreign artists .

 
As his painful experience with family in his hometown continued, especially the death of his brother, this made ​​him think of a way to express his feelings to respond to what was happening to him, so he uses the Persian calligraphy technique that is integrated with his own texture & colors through which he tries to show his emotions that reflect what is happening now in the Middle East in his own abstract point of view.

After this calligraphy stage, he began to discover a lot, and think of  an aesthetic research in a different way than ever before regarding Damascus ancient houses, their walls, miseries and the human reflections good and bad experienced by, appearing clear on those walls.

Natali Meaiki is a composer of Stories, color and emotions. She started her Art self-discovery journey when she graduated as an Interior Architect from Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts.

Emotions and pigments are equally in flux in her work, and together convey a deeper sense of reality mixed with fantasy through vivid brush strokes. Natali refers to her paintings as “emotional experiences” where memories and self-discovery play a major role. These vibrant explorations of feelings and struggles on canvas remain enigmatic similar to her motifs that dissolve into an environment of hope.

Natali is sharing with the viewer her internal world of thoughts, struggles and happiness that manifests

through her practice and onto her canvas.

But she believes that Art

leaves room for the viewer to interpret his way, look at the figures on the canvas and imagine their own stories, from their own experiences…

Larissa Chaoul is a lifelong artist and creator. A comic aficionado from a young age, Chaoul found early expression through comic-like renderings of figures and forms. Her art reflects her approach to life, namely in her resistance to seriousness, instead electing for a light, playful approach. Consequently, Chaoul creates whimsical, diverse pieces, rupturing with bold colors, dynamic movement, and eccentric figures. Through abstraction, distortion, and diverse visual elements that twist and meld into one another, her work often assumes the form of intricate visual tapestries, weaving together the various component details of a piece into a coherent, yet profoundly eclectic experience.

Chaoul has also received recognition for her much anticipated NFT collection. NFTs, a growing trend in the world of digital art, represent a milestone in the evolution of art collection and creation. NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) utilize block chain technology to attach a totally unique, non-replicable digital identity to artworks. These can be used to certify the authenticity and ownership of a specific piece, essentially opening space for the purchase, sale, and collection of digital ‘originals’. We had the privilege of speaking with Chaoul to ask her about her upcoming collection and what this project means for the development of her artistic voice.

Aziza Bahri born in Damascus Syria.

She is a modern abstract artist with innovative style whereby she pursued the marriage of Arabic calligraphy with various shapes of arts in assorted colours and characteristic little touches. Her style is distinctive and partially spiritual that has been well received in the art world. Her specialty is the famous Diwani script developed during the 16th century in the Ottoman era inspired by nature and oceans.

Equally so, her paintings inspire cheerfulness and happiness.

Born in 1990 in Jaramanah, Damascus – Syria.

 Kassam graduated from Damascus University in 2012.

Young yet promising, her works are very subjective, revealing a disturbed identity. 

Her clown figures portray her personal feelings of confusion surrounding the current turmoil around her. The muted colors and protruding paint signal the drama of the characters.

Born in Basrah, Iraq in 1963

Mseir received his BA In Painting from the University of Baghdad. He is a member of I.P.A.G, the Iraqi Plastic Artists Union, and the Iraqi Artists Society. He has exhibited in many solo and group exhbitions in Iraq, Jordan and Italy, and his personal collections can be found in Baghdad, Jordan, Lebanon, USA, Egypt, UAE, UK, Germany and India.

“There is a principle that I believe in and that is that life cannot stop. The things that come to stop may come, but life goes on and on. When it stops, it really only stops the part that dies and somehow life continues with the permanent movement. I believe that the stop is death and the movement is life. Any idea of life. This idea started by chance when I was painting the works of Abstract and noticed the existence of a triangle I had drawn inside my board without realizing. I found it very beautiful. I decided to work in search of the triangle and discovered things. The task of this form, especially about how the Sumerians had been interested in this form to a large extent and used them as symbols for permanence and motherhood.  They would when they want to write a woman draw a triangle upside down. Any floor up and head down. It seems that they took from the design of the woman because I saw it in their carvings of the mother. Strangely, this place is the origin of the new life. They have the existing triangle, whose base is lower, meaning they have power or perhaps the male also. And when the introduction of the triangles in some produces a six-star representing integration and life. And that star also found in the Reliant carved from the Sumerians. Take this study time and drew back works of the idea. And developed that idea to the bike in the  air. When I remembered my childhood that I was seeing my father as he climbed the bike to go to work I was seeing him and there is a question in my mind ... Why do not you drop the bike and it contains only two wheels???? What makes it stand up???? Then she realized that there is a third rib in addition to the ribs represented by the two wheels. It is the start, speed or movement ... The bike cannot stand down because it is only two wheels, it is only two fingers. But it does not fall if I continue movement ... This philosophical principle of my work plus to the shape of the bike form beautiful and loved and I adore the small machine accompanied me from my childhood and stick my life. I love shape and movement ....”

Shawki is a Lebanese born artist living and working in Beirut as a University teacher. Youssef works with image and word, exhibiting paintings as well as installations and videos. His work combines word and image to create a unique combination of religious calligraphy with hints of both oriental and Middle Eastern influences.

Born in Deir El Zor, Syria in 1959

Hamid graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus University 1986. He is a member of the Arabs Artists Associations & Journalistic Associations and has had an impressive 22 solo exhibitions in Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE, Kuwait, Japan, and Venezuela.

Born in 1954, Lebanese-German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, publisher and musician of Armenian descent.

The eldest son of renowned artist Paul Guiragossian, Emmanuel belongs to the 6th generation of artists in his family of musicians, iconographists and painters. 

Born in Nigeria in 1975.

In paintings, objects, audio and installation, artist Uche Edochie takes the art gallery scene through about 20 years of his career, for a show he described “my autobiography.” It was the artist’s seventh solo exhibition titled, Blue Rider, which opened in 2008 at AFA Gallery in Lagos.

Seven solo exhibitions for an artist who is barely ten years old in postgraduate practice, appears like a move towards the prolific ladder. He responded modestly, noting that his tutelage at University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) cannot be separated from his constant showings. “As a student at Nsukka, I was the fastest among my peers because I don’t set out on canvas if I do not have my concept worked out completely.”

Born in Babylon – Iraq in 1965.

Shubbar holds a PH.D. In Art/Drawing. He is a member of the Iraqi Artists Association and member of the Society of Fine Iraqis.

Mahmoud Shubbar is an Iraqi abstract artist whose works are released from academic restrictions. Freedom and spontaneity have become the engine of his pen. He was awarded the 1st prize twice at the International festival of arts in Egypt in 2000 and 2001. His works are currently part of collections in Romania, Russia, Italy, and the United States.