Ten Barriota artists decorated the Sayed Hall with 17 artworks, paintings and sculptures, depicting beauty in a variety of styles and techniques through their third art exhibition.
According to the director and owner of the Gallery Mrs. Elham Bakir, the exhibition is an opportunity for all art lovers to see new and distinctive works and to affirm that Syria is full of creative artists and that a new generation always appears that encourages the future of Syrian art.
Artist Noha Jabara participated in two paintings depicting her experience with windows with all the meditation stories, monologues, and mixed feelings of people who lived them. “This exhibition is a continuation of our art project with the slogan” With Art We Create a Better Reality “to emerge from the crises of war and beyond,” she stressed.
Artist Ghassan Al – Akl participated with three paintings of oil technique on canvas that reflect his recent experience, in which he combines characters with letter combinations in an expressive style and desert dust colors.
The artist Juma’a Al-Nazhan presented two paintings expressing his new experience in an abstract expressionist style. The first depicts the “Al-Hawaiqa” in the city of Deir Ez-Zour, which was destroyed by terrorists and surrounded by the Euphrates River and the other represents the Euphrates River as a kind of fulfillment of this great river, which remains in the conscience of its sons despite the war.
Artist Jan Hanna embodied in his painting portrait a beautiful girl using oil technique on canvas entitled “Sunrise after a sad night”, pointing out that he always paints a portrait for the female and lends her expressions from within himself to be a mixture of grief, hope and optimism for the future.
Artist Nimat Badawi chose to display two paintings from his modern product, in which he presented his daughter, Jory, in two different situations between stagnation and initiation, using his expertise in the restoration of icons to shape both paintings by painting oil colors on wood to overcome the mistakes of ancient art techniques.
The sculptor Partex Barsoumian participated in two works, one in stone, in which he embodied a portrait of a man and a woman, and the other in bronze, depicting a girl. He pointed out that the gathering of artists is necessary for them and for art to achieve development and artistic and cultural dialogue, stating that he prefers the realistic style that is evident for all segments of the audience without complications.
The sculptor Shadia Daaboul presented three sculptures of mixed metal ores with themes from reality representing Syrian human beings in a variety of bilateral and individual situations.
The artist Bashir Badawi participated in a new painting representing the duo of a woman and a man in a realistic manner and with a composition, which carries a lot of drama and dancing body language through foggy and cold color climates.
Artist Hori Slokjian participated with two real-life works in which many diverse humanitarian situations with a set of details gave a dramatic dimension to the two works.
Amal Farhat