About Tarek Elkassouf
Tarek Elkassouf is a Lebanese-Australian artist based in the UAE. In his Artist Statement, he explores the concept of balance after transformation. He explains how he understands the concept of the invisible, through what is not there; the empty, and its exchange with the full. His work was commissioned and acquired by International Museums such as the Institute of the Arab World in France, Ithra and the Royal Commission for AlUla [RCU] in Saudi Arabia. He’s interested in the space between the words and in the silence in the music which is as important as the notes th...Read More
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Featured Pieces
Marble Dumbbells
By Tarek Elkassouf
Located in Beirute, LB
‘Feel the weight’ is an invitation to get connected to the things around us and be more grounded.
With a heart and wings of Marble , this object interconnect through.
Category
2010s Lebanese Minimalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Chessboard
By Tarek Elkassouf
Located in Beirute, LB
They say that all artists are not chess players but all chess players are artists.
This is an object that is very close to my heart: the beauty of chess is it can be whatever you ...
Category
2010s Lebanese Minimalist Game Boards
Materials
Marble, Brass, Stainless Steel
Merge Vases
By Tarek Elkassouf
Located in Beirute, LB
This is blasphemy. The impious intersection of materials. The melding of marble and onyx, merged together in an ode to the curve.
Starting from rectangular blocks, they are polished, federated, and put on the turning table...
Category
2010s Lebanese Minimalist Vases
Materials
Marble
My Ashtray
By Tarek Elkassouf
Located in Beirute, LB
Time is the most priceless anything. It is everything.
Here you are buying time.
Take this piece in with assiduity. An immoderate ashtray as a silent acquiescence, to stop, to ...
Category
2010s Lebanese Minimalist Ashtrays
Materials
Marble, Gold Leaf
Gold Cuts
By Tarek Elkassouf
Located in Beirute, LB
This is alive. This is what’s real. Feel. It. Hold the weight of the Earth in your hands, on a human scale.
The consciousness of nature in your grasp.
A cube is complex but s...
Category
2010s Lebanese Other Paperweights
Materials
Marble, Gold Leaf