“People of Paper” in the paintings of artists from Syria and Lebanon at the Selina 7th Forum for Culture and Arts in Oyoun Al-Wadi

Homs (ST): For the seventh season in a row, the Selina Forum for Culture and Arts hosted the leading plastic artists from Syria and Lebanon in the mountainous village of Oyoun al-Wadi.

The forum, which bore the name “People of Paper” after the Al-Rahabnah play, brought together eighteen male and female plastic artists from Syria and Lebanon. They produced paintings from different plastic schools and with various artistic techniques through which they expressed the essence of the subject, which is linking man to the place and time in a way that creates a state of emotional existentialism.

The director of the forum, plastic artist Alaa Muhammad, explained in a statement to SANA news reporter that the forum, which lasted for four days, was distinguished by the diversity of plastic schools and openness, which created a color situation that intersected with the beauty of Oyoun al-Wadi, the hosting place of the forum, which focused on this aspect.

Muhammad added: The forum, in which twelve plastic artists from Syria and six from Lebanon participated, showcased paintings in which each artist expressed his/her visions and feelings in his/her own artistic language.

The plastic artist, Dr. Sawsan Al-Zoubi, who participated in a painting titled (Sarouja), expressed her happiness to participate in the forum, which provided access to the experiences of the participating artists and their techniques. She said: Old Damascus, with its historical market (Sarouja), is present in her works everywhere because it hosts originality and beauty.

For his part, the plastic artist Saed Salloum explained that he tried through his two paintings in the forum to show the interaction of man with the environment and life, and he searched in them for a dialogue between roses, stone, man and the things surrounding him according to contemporary events.

The plastic artist, Ramadan Al-Naasan, expressed his admiration for the magnificence of the meeting place, where sentiments are in harmony with the charming nature , which he employed in his painting, in which he tried to link the place with the feeling to become an integrated artistic unit.

From Lebanon the plastic artist Susan Chakramoun, a professor at the College of Fine Arts. Explained that many of her works relied on cities and their refraction, noting that the nature of Oyoun al-Wadi is similar to the nature of the picturesque Lebanese mountains, with its countryside, calmness and simplicity.

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