Winter 2008
Louay Hayyali, Kirsten Scheid, Jessica Winegar
By Jessica Winegar, Kirsten Scheid and Louay Hayyali Winter 2008 | Gallery Kirsten Scheid and Jessica Winegar introduce the work of Louay Kayyali, a Syrian artist whose work was well-known in Syria during his life-time but was little known beyond Syria, perhaps due to his socialist commitment and lyrical figurative style. His posthumous entry to the auction market has…
Louay Hayyali, Hiba Morcos
By Hiba Morcos and Louay Hayyali Winter 2008 | Gallery Translated by Hiba Morcos When art assumes a new understanding in the collective intellectual repository and a form of social consciousness, attaining to it an aspect of struggle, this essentially constitutes a rebellion against and refusal of the given social condition. In other words, it constitutes an unceasing…
By Hiba Morcos and Louay Hayyali Winter 2008 | Gallery Translated by Hiba Morcos I have a very particular opinion about art criticism in general, and in Syria specifically; it is sharp and frank. An artist’s mission ends when he presents his production to the audience, and nobody has the right to ask for an explanation from the…
