Winter 2008
Kirsten Scheid, Jessica Winegar, Louay Hayyali
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…
Hiba Morcos, Louay Hayyali
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…
Louay Hayyali, Hiba Morcos
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…
Summer 2008
John Nasr
By John Nasr Summer 2008 | ArteZine The cover to volume seven of “Grendizer”, locally illustrated and colored. Well, not really –but for the majority of us growing up in the eighties and early nineties in Lebanon, we were beamed an invincible father figure in the form of a Japanese giant robot, whose rousing adventures appeared…
Vartan Avakian
By Vartan Avakian Summer 2008 | ArteZine The Adventures of Aluminum Hagop is an Arabic sci-fi comic, based on a thirteen-issue limited series in Armenian published under the name Hagop Aluminum. After the 13th Armenian issue was mischievously titled “Is this the End of Hagop?” H Publishers revived the series in Arabic, with occasional bilingual (Arabic/Armenian)…
Omar Naim
By Omar Naim Summer 2008 | ArteZine If pop culture were candy, my childhood would have been one long stomachache. I devoured the stuff like it was religion, sifting through it for signs of higher intelligence, or lower intelligence, and maybe some sense of my own intelligence (that search goes on, by the way). This hunger…
Mazen Kerbaj
By Mazen Kerbaj Summer 2008 | ArteZine Mazen Kerbaj was born in Beirut in 1975 and has lived there since. His main passions are comics, painting, and music. In March 2000, he published some of his more personal works in his Journal 1999 (a dairy in comics). He has published eight other books and many short stories….
Mohieddin Ellabbad
By Mohieddin Ellabbad Summer 2008 | ArteZine Three pages from the Egyptian master illustrator’s book on visual culture. Intended for children, yet equally insightful for adults. Mohieddin Ellabbad was born in Cairo, Egypt, where he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. Before completing his degree he began work as a caricaturist for Roz al-youssef and…
Hengameh Fouladvand
By Hengameh Fouladvand Summer 2008 | Gallery Artist/educator Mohammad Ehsai is one of the most renowned trendsetters in what is now called the art of calligraphic painting (Naghashi-khat) in the Middle East and specifically Iran. Rarely has the work of Mohammad Ehsai been discussed with an analytical eye or a refined method. Rather, his work has…
Hatem El Imam
By Hatem El Imam Summer 2008 | ArteZine The comic book, in its present day form, is regarded as an imported medium to the Arab world. We have always translated, lettered, reprinted and read American, European, and Japanese comics, and in comparison rarely made indigenous Arab comics. The rate and scale of production has been in…
