Ayyam Gallery Beirut is pleased to present Apertures, a collective exhibition that brings together diverse painters. Featuring the works of Asaad Arabi, Mouteea Murad, Oussama Diab, Kais Salman, and Tammam Azzam, this thematic show highlights works that, despite addressing a range of subject matter, use meticulous divisions of space, particularly openings or compartments, in order to describe the underlying psychology of hidden realms or laden spaces.
Seasoned painter Asaad Arabi returns to the geometric abstraction of his youth in Phonic Kaleidoscope (2014), a mosaic of colourful triangles that seem to gradually disappear into the background. This illusion of free-floating forms, which is created as the artist distributes various shades of grey between each shape, represents a spectrum of sound, with sonic formations visualised as interactions of shapes and colour. As the title of the work suggests, Arabi references how we encounter language, particularly the emotive intonations of speech patterns.
