Ammar Hammoud

Adam & Eve

2023

" Zoo Escape " 270 x 195 x 2 Indian Ink on Canvas 2023 Unique by Ammar Hammoud Syrian Contemporary Artist

Syrian Artist Yasser Hammoud   Yasser Hammoud was born in Tartous, Syria, in 1963 he studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Damascus and graduated from the Departme...

Since the 1940s, the Egyptian painter Hamed Abdalla is not only a visionary pioneer of modern art for the global south and Arab countries; he is also one of the first of his generation to envision painting as political art and activism. The current display focuses on a specific time of defeat and disillusion for a whole generation of Arab artists and intellectuals, in the aftermath of the “Six Days War” led by Israel and their allies (a war title which a lot of Arab activists consider propagandist, preferring to call it “The Defeat of 1967” or simply the “June 1967 War”). This persistent ideological wound became the symbol of failed dreams for the “Arab Nation” or Arab states alliances – including the short but emblematic Egyptian-Syrian achievement of the United Arab Republic. Another major failure, to which Abdalla will respond through the paintings on display here, is the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat program of “opening up” (Infitah) the Egyptian economy and give way to political compromise with the US and Israel – Abdalla assimilating this period to a vast state of Coma for all Arab people and territories. In a collective statement by a group of Egyptian artists exiled in Paris (including Abdalla), published in the Egyptian local journal Al-Dustur, on 5 December 1977, one can read: “This disaster is far greater than the defeat of June 1967. Rather, it approaches the scale of the disaster that took place in 1948 (…) To destroy the Arab people’s noble three decades-long struggle against imperialism and Zionism (…) Sadat is exploiting the stifling economic crisis that Egypt is currently facing (…) We must resist this betrayal of our nation or be crushed under the wheels of global imperialism for generations to come.” The works presented here reflect Abdalla’s transformation of the Hurrufiyyah aesthetics, to achieve his own way of “Arab Letterism”. It claims for a deeply experimental, non-decorative, politically committed and non-commercial use of the Arabic letter...

George Merheb was born in Lebanon in 1960 where he currently works and resides. He obtained a Master’s degree in Drawing and Painting from the Lebanese University of Beirut, Lebanon....

medium: fabric, thread, ink, paint, synthetic hair Gina Phillips is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, s...

Adam and Eve Juan Garcia Ripolles Spanish (1932) Date: 1981 Lithograph, numbered in pencil Edition of 11 Image Size: 13 x 16 inches Size: 19.5 x 27.5 in. (49.53 x 69.85 cm)

Artist: Martin Barooshian, American (1929 - ) Title: Adam and Eve Year: 1951 Medium: Woodcut, signed in pencil Edition: 30 Size: 12 x 18 inches

Artist: Russ Warren, American (1951 - ) Title: Adam and Eve Year: 1980 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed verso Size: 56 x 49 in. (142.24 x 124.46 cm)