Ammar AL-BEIK

Solo-Exhibition

1 May - 19 , 2008

Press Release

Ammar AL-BEIK is a photographer who comes from another place. Neither traditional subjects tempt him, nor do familiar aesthetics mean anything to him. He rides his thoughts - ideas to take untraveled roads, to his own place.
AL-BEIK, is like a modern Don Quixote that carries his stick and hurries towards ideas. His photographs are complex. They require a lot of contemplation, design, and re-design in many ways, as if he is making a film in each photo.

We see photos of the woman between the past and the present, the enslaved and victimized woman, as well as photos of artists immersed in their own realms, and ideas stripped of consumption in addition to symbolic blackness that besieges light…. Each photograph is an unexpected artwork that does not resemble its predecessor, yet they are all related with a mysterious thread.

** During the opening, a 45-minutes documentary film will be showed, produced and directed by the artist, entitled: "Video Game". It documents 15 plastic artists whose identities are their works. Body language is what unites their presence…

Exhibition Press

Documenting Life As It Is, Syria Today  October 2008

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Unique Visions  May 2008

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Behind the Success Story  April 2008

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Exhibition Publications

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Selected Works

AB14 Ammar AL-BEIK 'Golden Dust' 108 X 180 cm. Archival Print on Canvas Editions of 3 2008

AB7 Ammar AL-BEIK 'Serial Artist' 108 X 180 cm. Archival Print on Canvas Editions of 3 2008

AB5 Ammar AL- BEIK 'Checkmate' 122 X 105 cm. Archival Print on Canvas Editions of 3 2008

AB6 Ammar AL-BEIK 'Daylight' 108 X 180 cm. Archival Print on Canvas Editions of 3 2008

AB18 Ammar AL-BEIK 'Untitled' 180 X 108 cm. Archival Print on Canvas Editions of 3 2008