Portrait of Faisal Samra
The Saudi artist Faisal Samra does not stop innovating art with experiments of philosophical depth. Moving away from traditionalist presentation and visualization, he changes the artistic outlook on the work. It aims to deal with modernist perceptions and formation. There is a continuous overlap in the art of painting between photography and sculpture, to overturn the scales of work and its traditional, inherited classifications. It is a type of post-modern experimentation, which presents to the viewer works, or artistic objects, that cannot be attributed to anything outside of them.
Faisal Samra displayed his work in a number of art exhibitions, including: an exhibition he created for the Culture and Arts Association in Riyadh in 1974 AD, and his exhibition in Roshan Hall, which was organized by the Mansouriya Foundation in 2000 AD. Samra trained at the National Higher School of Fine Arts and Architecture in Paris, from which he graduated in 1980 with honors. He worked as an interior designer for Saudi television in 1980 and 1981. He then returned to Paris to work as a fine artistic director at the Arab World Institute between 1987 and 1994, and also attends. In the field of personal exhibitions from 1974 AD until today, in many Western and Arab countries. “Al-Faisal” interviewed him about ownership and other topics.
