Collective Exhibition of Young Artists

The National Center for Visual Arts  in Damascus is holding  a collective exhibition for four  young artists that presented different artistic visions  and techniques of painting, offering each of them an opportunity to present his own vision and thought.

After a workshop that lasted seven months, and giving the four artists a wide berth to express their emotions regarding  the war through painting; the National Center for Visual Arts hosted an exhibition including artworks and experiences of Ahmed Talaa, Khuzaymah Al-Ayed, Majd Al-Hinnawi and Salah Huraib.

Artist Khuzaymah Al-Ayed , chose the crimson color to fill the large blank  space in his paintings combining colors with other materials to express the prison of soul inside the body caused by pain and soreness. While Ahmad Talaa escaped from reality into imagination by using  white grades of colour.

Artist Salah al-Huraib chose red to reflect reality, feeling, symbolism, color and their relationship to destruction.

Young artist Majd  chose in his abstract  paintings  the combination of two extreme colors (white and black), since black is a symbol of misery and pain, while white symbolizes peace and hope.

Participating artist, Maj Hinnawi said to Syriatimes: “ The principle theme of the works depicts  war and crisis each and every Syrian is living, yet each one of us expresses his attitude in a different way” “Each of us has a message to deliver through this exhibition which is calling for peace” added the artist.

“We are a new young generation trying to display new variety of collective exhibition breaking  the rules of traditional exhibitions, so we used one size for all paintings using oil an acrylic colors”. He concluded.

Interviewed by: Nada Haj Khidr