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PLACES… Familiar Places; there are some that have lost their familiarity and have become unrecognizable. When people attend the scene in silence, the unfamiliar seems even stranger than before. When One imagines a whole scene of what is an uninhabited…
Two Exclusive Exhibitions dedicated to the Region and Lebanon Tribute to Etel Adnan, Lebanese artist and poetess Etel Adnan, Eight ceramics (50 x 50 cm), directed by Alexandra Catelain-Orange, © MENART FAIRFrom the Olivéa series, a tribute to the…
For the Age of Lebanon Sfeir Semler Gallery presents Farid Haddad: For the Age of Lebanon, the artist’s first solo show in Beirut in over fourty years. The exhibition presents an overview of Haddad’s painting oeuvre and spans the last…
Samia Halaby (b.1936 in Jerusalem) is a Palestinian-American artist, activist, and scholar living and working in New York. She was educated in the 1950s in the American Midwest, at a time when abstract expressionism was popular, but female abstract painters…
“A flower, Earth’s present in the space of Nature. The gift of Spring for a new beginning. A daisy from our garden, an old friend to our humble houses, a sign of returning home. Colour, shape, fragrance, rhythm, the joy…
THE FUTURE OF TRADITIONS WRITING PICTURES: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM THE MIDDLE EAST This exhibition is about three generations of artists from Iran and the Arab world, from the early pioneers of a vernacular Lettrism movement in the 1960s till now.…
The Earth Is Like a Child That Knows Poems by Heart Gilbert Hage photographs the tulips which have sprouted from their bulb and evolved into flowers; however, it is not time T of flowering and blossoming that is captured by…
In this most recent body of work, Afaf Zurayk (b. 1948) invites us to join her in a cathartic journey of painting, poetic prose, and poetry. The journey mirrors the history of a city and of a generation that have…
The exhibition ethnographically explores the material manifestations of Lebanon’s economic crisis across Beirut’s urban fabric. Lebanon is now the site of one of the world’s worst economic crises since the 1850s. Through an ethnographic lens, Utilities seeks to explore Beirut’s…
Flags hold a constant place in art, from classical historical painting to contemporary installations. With the juxtaposition of their strips of coloured fabrics, flags have stimulated painters with their qualities for abstraction, well before abstract art preferred chromatic fields to…