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Princess Wijdan Al-Hashemi inaugurated the personal exhibition of the Lebanese artist, Samir Al-Sayegh, and a group exhibition of artworks by Lebanese artists, Wednesday evening, at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Al-Weibdeh.
The two exhibitions, organized by the National Museum in cooperation with the Jordanian-Lebanese Association, will continue until May 20.
In his paintings, Al-Sayegh used monochromatic colors and square edges, so that each letter is dismantled from its original form, so that the letter is not associated with semantic use, and Al-Sayegh’s influence appears in the paintings of his exhibition on the kufic lines of Qur’anic manuscripts, and Samir Al-Sayegh created a group of lines by merging the traditional calligraphy with Contemporary design.
While the works of the group exhibition represent the areas of painting, photography, sculpture, engraving arts, printing with its various techniques, photography and Arabic calligraphy, which are paintings of a group of the most important pioneering Lebanese artists from later stages.
And all the participating Lebanese artworks are from the permanent collection of the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, which are works by artists (Paul Guiragossian, Afaf Zureik, Atl Adnan, Wajih Nahla, Amin Al-Basha, Hussein Madi, Saliba Douaihy, Sami Makarem, Rafik Sharaf, Ani Kurkdjian, Aref El Rayes, Shafiq Abboud, Shawky Shawkini, Fadia Ahmed, Ghada Gamal, Emmanuel Guiragossian, Charles Khoury, Hassan Johnny, Harir, Helen El Khal, Juliana Seraphim, Mai Abboud, Nizar Al Zaher, Asaad Orabi and Simon Fattal).
On the sidelines of the exhibition, the artist, Samir Al-Sayegh, will present at 6:00 pm today, Thursday, a lecture entitled “The New in Arabic Calligraphy.”
Al-Sayegh is a writer and poet who produced many books on Sufi poetry and Islamic art. He also lectured at the Department of Architecture and Design at the American University of Beirut from 2003 to 2007. — (