Ayyam Gallery Beirut is pleased to announce Venus of the Clouds, the forthcoming solo exhibition of Syrian painter and sculptor Mounzer Kamnakache. Known for sensual figures that possess mythical overtones, Kamnakache is a prominent artist of his generation.
With his latest body of work he resumes the themes found in earlier pastels with the buttery forms of his female protagonist dominating airy compositions. Interested in the origins of man and the cyclic rhythms of nature that define our existence, his rubenesque heroines stand as symbolic representations of “the connector,” that which gives a “pulse” and “tenderness” to life.