Ayyam Gallery Beirut is proud to present the latest body of works from Master painter Assad Arabi.
Assad Arabi is an invaluable retrospect on a very particular awakening in the history of Middle Eastern art. Al-Nahda al-Arabiyya was an eminent Arab renaissance, which flourished and accompanied the wave of the innovative sixties. It was set out to embrace and attain the lessons of the western world all whilst similarly respecting the cultural denotations and the local artistic heritage present in the region.
Assad Arabi is an artist who is gorged with the effects of this revolutionary generation and it is in this spirit that the artist decides to take on the nude. In a bold fashion, Arabi is resolved to counteract the increasing hostility towards figurative painting, a practice that predates pre-historic times, and revive the essential and revered artistic matter.
