Ayyam Gallery Jeddah is pleased to present The Seat of Perception III, a solo exhibition of paintings by Lebanese artist Walid El-Masri, from 4 June - 10 July 2013.
Lebanese artist Walid El-Masri has in recent years concentrated his attention on a single material subject for his dynamic canvases: a chair. In each of his paintings, he pares down the architecture of the chair to a simple and evocative configuration of shapes and lines, and positions it so that this form is unexpectedly truncated or cropped by the edge of the canvas. Patches or swathes of bright colour punctuate the lower portions of the paintings, serving to counterbalance the decentralised position of the subject and to harmonise each composition.
