16 artists from Syria and Russia embody the meanings of hope and life in a joint art exhibition

Damascus (ST): 16 Syrian and Russian artists have embodied the meanings of hope, love, common life, and the beauty of Damascus, past and present, in a joint exhibition that included their paintings, sculptures and graphics at the Russian Cultural Center in Damascus. The exhibition, which is the first of its kind held by the Center after years of stopping .

Nikolai Sukhov, Director of the Russian Cultural Center,  said  that it came as part of efforts to consolidate Syrian and Russian cultural relations and help artists in Syria by pushing the wheel of art and presenting high-end art to the center’s visitors who amount to over a hundred a day, raising a new generation on culture and art, and drawing their attention to high human meanings.

Artist Fatima Al-Sawdi participated in an expressive painting under the name “behind bars” expressing the state of sadness and loss of hope by depicting the psychological state through colors, while Abeer Al-Kaseeh contributed a painting inspired by the poems of Nizar Qabbani  highlighting the Damascene neighborhoods and the oriental woman in a mixture of poetry and drawings.

Artist Abeer Karimou participated in an oil painting on canvas that embodies the deepest bonds between man and woman and her role in spreading light in his life, while artist and poetess Kholoud Karimou took part in a painting that mixes woman and the homeland and embodies different emotions through dark and light colors .

In turn, artist Dr. Mahmoud Salem, member of the Central Council of the Plastic Artists’ Union and the supervisor of the exhibition, explained that some of the participating artists are academics and others are amateurs who have presented works that represent many aspects of the Syrian society and life, indicating that the exhibition is a mixture of beautiful art and distinctive visual language, and schools in it varied between abstract, impressionism ,realism expressionism  and classicism.

Svetlana Miro from the Russian Cultural Center said that some of the participating artists hold the two nationalities together, pointing out that the aim of the exhibition is to activate the Center’s role in the Syrian arts movement, as it has always been celebrating and holding periodic exhibitions before the war.

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