30 artists participate in the virtual art forum of Mustafa Ali Gallery

With the participation of 30 artists representing various visual arts, the Virtual Art Forum has launched its first session with the aim of creating a means of communication with young artists and confirming the continuation of artistic work despite the disconcerting circumstances due to the Corona pandemic.

Regarding the forum, which was called by Mustafa Ali Gallery, the international Syrian sculptor Ali said in a statement to SANA: “Thirty artists were selected out of sixty who applied to participate in the forum under the supervision of a specialized committee consisting of three accredited artists. The participating young artists will be absolutely free to express their artistic visions by adopting the themes, styles, and the appropriate techniques they choose.

Ali went on to say: “Videos of the participants will be broadcast daily on social media sites  while they are carrying out their artistic works at their homes or workshops , so that the audience follows how the work is being accomplished and the development of the participants’ artistic experiences as well”.

“At the end of the forum, the completed works will be shown directly to the public on September 28, with the implementation of precautionary measures adopted to confront the Corona Virus. They will also be published on social media in an effort to help market them. Bronze shields will be distributed to the participants at the end of the forum,” he confirmed.

According to Ali, the forum aims at creating a cultural state that allows for the discovery of new Syrian youth talents in plastic art, and presenting the genuine civilized face of culture and the arts in Syria in general, as well as attracting the new generation of Syria’s young plastic artists as an attempt to raise their cultural, intellectual and artistic awareness and create an interactive state of dialogue between them and the audience.

“This forum, which will last for ten days, and can be extended up to fifteen days, will be a good opportunity for the participants to accomplish their works, to express their artistic visions within a wide international arena  to convey their message and enrich their artistic experiences by exchanging experiences with other artists, as well as to convey Syria’s message  to the whole world that it was and still is, the cradle of civilization and the  center of art, culture and humanity,” Ali concluded.

Amal Farhat