Ayyam Gallery Beirut is pleased to announce A Collective Memory: 2007 to 2017, a solo exhibition by painter, theorist, and critic Asaad Arabi.
A Collective Memory: 2007 to 2017 highlights Arabi’s seminal works from 2007-2017, including both figurative and abstract works, as well as a selection of his newest paintings.
Throughout his six-decade artistic career, Asaad Arabi has continuously attempted to reach an intuitive equilibrium between what is remembered and what is taken as its symbolic significance as a result of being forgotten. Each artwork moves between two points of attraction, expressionism – with all its sufferings, and abstraction. For both, the artist finds significance of lines and intense colour as they fall into what he describes as a musical rhythm, as he finds that shapes are created as a result of an audio-visual binary that is in perfect harmony with the duality of remembering and forgetting.
