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Walid Painting

Omar Khouri

Lebanon

Painting, Gouache on Paper

Size: 18.1 W x 24 H x 0 D in

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This recent series of portraits is an exploration of what it means to "know" a person in this digital age of smart phones and social media. Today we express our identities and connect and interact with our friends, families and colleagues in the same ways and same places where we get news of politicians, celebrities and fictional characters; All coming to us through our digital screens as concepts of people rather than separate physical entities. Since physical proximity and direct contact are no longer necessities of our interactions, the lines blur between friend and stranger, past and present, reality and fantasy, private and public, truth and lies… This is Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Progressive Socialist party in Lebanon as he was in the early 80's Gouache on Arches rough 300g paper 61 cm x 46 cm There is a white paper border around the paint approximately 5 cm wide

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Painting:Gouache on Paper

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Size:18.1 W x 24 H x 0 D in

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My work deals with the deconstruction of the complex social artifact of identity to reach for the common loneliness of the human condition that rather paradoxically connects us all. Through an intuitive trance-like "collaboration" with medium, where the paint is left to express its qualities as much as I do, my process has evolved into an almost shamanistic ritual where nature takes an equal part in the making of the final product. Wedging into the crack between abstraction and representation, my paintings tend towards a depoliticization and decontextualization of the image as identity signifier, breaking it apart to peer into the topographies and landscapes within. BIOGRAPHY: Omar Khouri was born in London, but spent his childhood in Lebanon. In 2002, he graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston with a BFA in illustration. After spending a year in Los Angeles working in cinema and television, he returned to Beirut. In 2006, Omar founded Samandal Comics Magazine, the first experimental comics periodical in the Arab world. He is currently Samandal’s Editor-in-Chief and one of its many international contributing artists. In 2010, Omar's sociopolitical satire "Utopia" won Best Arabic Comic book at the Algerian International Comic Book Festival (FIBDA). Omar’s work spans many art forms including painting, comics, animation, theatre, film, and music. He lives and works between Beirut and London.

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