Lebanese artist Ali Chamseddine has chosen to end 2022 and welcome the new year at Dar al Mussawir, in Hamra, with his paintings that combine the depiction of Lebanon "out of place and time," recalling the tragedy of a country that has been unable to overcome it for years.
The artist displayed a bouquet of his cubist paintings, including themes such as the Beirut port explosion, which, along with economic and social crises, constituted the most prominent faces of a "hellish situation" that increasingly imprints the works of Lebanese artists.
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Chamseddine, for example, uses several colors in his paintings, including brown, orange, yellow and blue, stressing that sadness can also be expressed in vivid colors.
The Lebanese artist collected the disappointments of previous years and carried them on board paintings that reflect the rejection of reality, shape its alternative world, and express the years of brokenness.
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His paintings mimic the tragedy of forced migration and the loss of places where people lived.
The Lebanese artistic community has long used their creative expression to reflect on social realities, mirroring the crises that their country is experiencing to overcome the political and social circumstances and to present what is new at the artistic level.