Fire and Burning, different visions about fire in Badie’ Jahjah’s exhibition

Damascus (ST): Artist Badie’ Jahjah has captured the events of the fires that affected different regions of Syria several months ago to reproduce these painful scenes with different artistic visions that carry many philosophical and spiritual ideas and call for contemplation and hope through his exhibition entitled “Fire and Burning”.

The exhibition, hosted by the Alef  Noon Gallery for Arts and Spirituality included 17 paintings in the oil technique of various sizes and styles, which varied between expressive and expressive realism that approached pure abstraction with emotional states that call for meditation at times and pain at other times.

Regarding the exhibition, Jahjah said, “I embodied in some paintings the post-fire stage, the fire extinguished and turned into ashes, and at the same time green shoots were stored representing the phoenix that emerged from the ashes in an expressive manner.”

Jahjah explained that art is able to record and document the tragedy and to be a witness over time to what is happening as an ethical duty of the artist towards his people, his community and his country, indicating that the Alef Noon Gallery seeks to present art bearing an ethical dimension to raise the responsibility towards society.

For his part, artist and critic Ammar Hassan said, “The  displayed paintings reflected the feelings that we experienced during the occurrence of the fires and began to light an art of pain despite the presence of the crows that lit that fire. He added that this event  presents Jahjah’s renewed plastic technique and added to his artistic experience.”

Hassan pointed out that the artist dropped his brush on that fire and concluded his exhibition with a trio representing the retreat and extinction of fire with the emergence of the colors of blue, turquoise and cyan to foretell a new birth and tell us that despite the fire and ashes, life will continue, indicating that the contents of the paintings varied between heartburn and birth.

K.Q.