The first exhibition in many years of paintings and works on paper by Elaine and Willem de Kooning will be on view at Heather James Fine Art, New York, from November 8, 2018 – February 28, 2019. de Kooning X de Kooning traces the artists’ early experimentation with abstraction and figuration with paintings and photographs from the Rudy Burckhardt family collection, and includes later works from other private collections to illustrate how their styles evolved. An opening reception will be held at the gallery, 42 East 75 Street, on November 8, 6 – 8 p.m.

Highlights include Willem de Kooning’s Woman II Springs, c. 1961, part of a critical body of work that became known as his “Woman” series. This signature painting will be joined by earlier gouaches from 1937-42 — initiated right before meeting Elaine — and a pair of small-scaled abstract paintings completed in 1958 — soon after the couple separated.

Custot Gallery Dubai is pleased to present a major exhibition of still life paintings, drawings and watercolours by
the internationally renowned Colombian artist, Fernando Botero. These works, which come from the artist’s own
collection and are being exhibited for the first time, were created between 1980 and 2018.
Throughout thirty still life works representing flowers, fruit, objects, musical instruments and fantastic scenes of
everyday moments, the artist pays tribute to the Old Master paintings he studied as a young student in Europe
during the 1950s.

Courtesy of Custot Gallery Dubai

Daniele Genadry, Ahmad Ghossein, and Hassan Zahreddine will be in conversation around Hatem Imam’s solo exhibition Threshold at Letitia Gallery in Beirut. This informal conversation format aims to trigger commentaries on Imam’s current artistic inquiry in relation to other artists’ practices dealing with a similar subject matter or comparable techniques in their own distinctive practices, visual languages and conceptual interests.

Threshold is curated by Amanda Abi Khalil and is on view from 15 November 2018 to 19 January 2019. It is recommended that the audience visits the exhibition at Letitia Gallery prior to attending the conversation.

Courtesy of the artist and Letitia Gallery

In conjunction with the first edition of Perspective,Saradar Collection opens their offices to exhibit artworks that curators Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath selected as a starting point for their research. Perspective #1, Witness to a Golden Age: Mapping Beirut’s Art Scene 1955-1975 focuses on numerous cultural figures and art spaces while unearthing the historiography of a number of artworks hailing roughly from the 1960’s. An unprecedented amount of archival materials from their research will be featured on a website in the form of a searchable map and interactive timeline.
The show will run from November 26 until November 30, 2018, at Tabaris 812 Bldg, Charles Malek Avenue, Beirut.

Courtesy of Saradar Collection Offices.

Galerie Janine Rubeiz has the pleasure to invite you to the opening of Nevine Bouez’s exhibition “Echoes of Earth” happening on for   Opening on Wednesday, December 5 untill December 31, 2018.

The artist’s aspiration is to reinstate the bonding between human beings and earthly elements in perfect communion, through artistic intention. “I put every single dimension of myself into my sculpting experience, and reach a creative flow that guides my hands in every moment, as my piece takes form. I feel limitless possibilities and use interestingly textured natural elements as I follow new ideas popping up out of a deep state of contemplation. The element of surprise is my motivation, as I simultaneously create and discover the emergence of unplanned new shapes at the tip of my fingers”, says Nevine.

Courtesy of Galerie Janine Rubeiz

Zawyeh Gallery is pleased to present “Dream-Work”, an exhibition featuring the work by Palestinian-Israeli Artist Ibrahim Nubani. The exhibition will showcase 25 of his recent abstract paintings.

Ibrahim Nubani is an artist whose work has been strongly linked to themes of trauma and therapy, his paintings called “schizophrenic” in their attempts to wrestle with the contradictions and alienations of his own dual Palestinian-Israeli identity. Certainly, these works have a frenetic, even neurotic quality: thick black geometric patterns repeat across often chaotic and colorful canvases, and the weighty symbolism of eyes, trees, and prison bars is everywhere, alongside more mundane images. Nubani himself insists that his abstract works have no documentary intent: their politics lies in their capacity to gesture towards the possibility of liberation beyond the figurative. Yet the paintings are also palimpsests, whose visible layers record the process of their own production: the bright colors beneath, and all their meanings, are not effaced by the symbols on top but cluster around, and in places overcome, them. Dreams, according to Freud, are always palimpsests; it is the dreamlike (or nightmarish) qualities of Nubani’s works that shine through most clearly, perhaps most of all in the ways they challenge interpretation.

Courtesy of Zawyeh Gallery

The Sursock Museum has the pleasure to invite you to the opening of “Oumaya Alieh Soubra: Le Plein et le Vide” on Thursday 13 December 2018, 18:00 to 21:00.

This exhibition is supported by Banque Libano-Française. It will be on view until 14 January 2019, Collection Galleries, Level 1.

Oumaya Alieh Soubra was born in Beirut in 1926. A pharmaceutical laboratory analyst who also painted, she was the first woman elected to the Pharmaceutical Society in 1955 and had a successful professional career until she lost her medical analysis laboratory during the Lebanese civil war. She then chose to dedicate herself entirely to painting, which had hitherto been only a hobby.

Courtesy of The Sursock Museum

Delgosha Gallery proudly presents solo exhibition of Zabihullah Mohammady titled “Seven Sisters And A Brother”.
This rare collection emerges from the mind of a man who in his childhood was encouraged by his father to memorize Quran, Shahnameh, Nizami’s poems as well as some other poems, so he becomes narrator and illustrator of stories of these books.

He creates collection of imaginary illustrations in which violence, hostility and love are delicately placed in his narration. It is as if all these wars and women woven by colourful threads lose their usual place in his composition, as if the dialogue between them is finished. The delicate and intericate texture of his paintings remind us of patterns and knots of Persian Carpets. Coming from Lorestan, he remembers well his mom weaving Persian carpet. It is as if his images are records of last episode of that magnificent yet tragic scene. In his images earth does not have its common sense; the view is neither from the sky nor from the front. Perspective only follows painter’s imagination and the importance of characters and patterns. He illustares these stories exactly the way he narrates them.
Mohammady plays with layers of the image and elements are only separated with aid of encircling lines. In these paintings every element is alive. Flowers and trees are out of proportion and divide his image into two halves, he goes to the extent that his main characters need to struggle to become flexible in order to be able to fit in his painting.
The collection “Seven Sisters And A Brother “ is a mythological story of a king’s daughters and son who take refuge into wilderness from cruelty of their step-mother and its resulting truama, and they turn into a renowned talking flower, a flower whom everyone come to this wilderness to visit and pick but no one gets to pick it even the king himself.

Courtesy of Delgosha Gallery