Abaq II, 2019

Artists Abdul Qader Al Rayes

Soliman

Muatasim Al Kubaisy

Areej

Jaha

Hasan

Ashour

Al Ajam

Turki

Homoud

Awatef Al Safwan

Al Thagafi

Sabah Arbili

نم ةيتآ لزانملل ةتفاخ ءاوضأ هرينت ئداه ليلب ةيناثلا هتحول يتأت مث ،، ملاسلاو ةبحملا اهلأمت ةليضف لايلل ةيناضمرلا حيباصملا اهناكو

ةعومجم ءامسلا

زتو ،ةبحلأاو

ةماركلاو

هيف

حيرشتب يسيبكلا مصتعم نانفلا

Abdulrahman Alsoliman was born in AlAhsa City in Saudi Ara bia in 1954 and currently resides in Dammam. He received his Diploma in Art Education from the Teachers Institute, and teaches there.

Alsoliman participated in more than 50 joint exhibitions throughout the world starting from the Saudi Cultural Week in Algeria in 1984 until his last participation in Decades exhi bition in Mono Gallery in Riyadh in 2018.

Throughout his artistic career, Abdulrahman held more than 10 personal exhibitions in various Arab countries starting from 1983 in Dammam until 2013 in Doha, where he received a number of awards and artistic honors. His artworks were acquired by many governmental entities, a number of artistic centers, art groups and individuals in the Kingdom and Arab and foreign countries.

The paintings of Abdulrahman Alsoliman are incarnations of abstract imaginary scenes which present the viewer with a mysterious ambiguities of feelings, hidden Illuminations, and imaginary reflections of lighting streaks. He achieved creativ ity especially in the Arabian identity, benefiting from the in ternational art movement in general and the modern Europe an structure in particular, as if he is offering Arabic music with a decorative characteristic.

١0 نــم رــثكأ نــمحرلادبع ناــنفلا يــف م٢0١3 ىــتحو ماــمدلا يــف م١9٨3 ماــع نــم اءدــب ةــيبرعلا لودــلا .ةــينفلا تاــميركتلاو زــئاوجلا نــم ددــع اــهيف لاــنو ،ةــحودلا

ةــيلايخ ةــيديرجت رــظانمل ديــسجت ناميلــسلا نــمحرلادبع تاــحول ةــيفخ تاءاــضإو رعاــشم نــم ةــضماغ تاــماهيإ اــهيلإ نــيرظانلا بــهت

ثــعبيو نــيعلا شــهدي اــمم ،ةراــنلإا طوــطخل ةــيمهو تاــساكعناو

Currently working as a professor of Pottery and Sculpture at Sharjah Collections of Art and an “Artist Advisor” for upcom ing and existing artists, Al Kubaisy was born in Iraq, where he graduated in 1991 from the Fine Art Academy of the Univer sity of Baghdad. His equestrian works have appeared in pri vate collections across the UAE and have been exhibited widely in Baghdad, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Paris.

Muatasim Al Kubaisy equestrian sculptures allow the figure of the horse to emerge as a symbol of refinement and sophisti cation, demonstrative of the ability to foster physical prow ess, grace, and potency through breeding, patience, and care. His bronze statues, many of which are finished with a layer reminiscent of cracked pottery shards, emerge into the world both as newly wrought objects and artifacts recently un earthed. The artist’s refusal to adhere to one prevailing mode of representation evokes the nomadic origins of the Arabian horse.

Among his key achievements are the gold-plated ceramic mural memorializing the late H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan in Al Ain Museum.

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ةــسسؤم

Born in Saudi, Areej bint Turki lived abroad most of her child hood which highly contributed to her perception of the world. she earned her undergraduate degree in graphic de sign in London, and took several individual art courses in Cal ifornia and Italy. She completed her masters degree in paint ing from the academy of arts in San Francisco.

She participated in several group exhibitions such as Nawa feth, Italian and Saudi Women’s Exhibition, Riyadh, Saudi Ara bia in 2007, Turath Foundation group exhibition in Jeddah 2010, Areej Art exhibition in Riyadh in 2012, and Fann Exhibi tion Installation in Riyadh in 2013.

Areej holds weekly creative art courses for children in Riyadh Saudi Arabia and is the owner and Art Market showroom in Riyadh.

»لصفملا حاشولا ءانثأ ضرعت تضرعت ءامسلا يف ايرثلا ام اذإ«

I found her when the Pleiades first shone through the sky, mimicking the embroidery of her scarf

Mahjoub Hassan was born in 1954 in the region of Halfaiyat al-Malouk in Sudan. He performed art as a painter at the doors of traditional houses in his small village where he would paint landscape scenes in celebration of those who performed Hajj.

Mahjoub’s artistic personality was formed during the second ary stage. After being encouraged by one of his professors, he decided to join the Faculty of Fine Arts upon graduating from secondary school in 1974 and specialized in illustration. After graduating from the faculty in 1978, he joined the Min istry of Culture and Information where he was commissioned to work as a technical director in the English language maga zine Sudan Now from 1978 until 1980.

He moved to Riyadh and lived there for fourteen years which highly influenced his artwork where he is often inspired by the Saudi environment and its wealth of cultural heritage.

هتبرجت ترثأ اهنأ بوجحم دكؤي ،نلآا ىتح اماع

ثرإو نوزــخم نم هــكلتمت اــمب ةيدوعــسلا ةــئيبلا ىــلع هــفرعت يــف

نأ رــيغ ، نــيطلا توــيبو ماــنغلأاو لاــمجلاو ءارــحصلا مــسرف ،رــيبك .هلامعأ نم ريثك يــف يوــقلا روــضحلا اــهل ناك ةــليصلأا ةــيبرعلا لوــيخلا

هاــجتا وأ اــهنيعب ةــسردم نــمض هــلامعأ فــينصت بوــجحم بــحي لا امدختــسم ،سرادــم ةــعومجم نــم طــيلخ هــلامعأ نأ ىرــيو ،ددــحم موــقي ةدــحاو ةــحول يــف ةــفلتخملا داوــملا نــم ةــعونتم ةــعومجم هــسفنب اــهزيهجتب

Awatef Al Safwan was born in Tarout Islan in Eastern province, Saudi Arabia. She is a participant in various exhibitions since 1990 As well as a member of Qatif Art Group and the Saudi Society of Fine Arts, and of Al-Jouf Fine Arts Group

Her work represents the type of art that has been almost ab sent from the national art scene, introducing a new vision of Bitik art or drawing on silk as she expresses through topic of human concerns; the contemporary man and woman. Awatif held a series of personal exhibitions, the first one is “Minnamat 1” at the club of Arts in the Center of Social Devel opment, and then “Minnamat 2” in the international Gallery and the third is “The Return of Juha”.

She won many awards such as, the first prize of Al Jouf Group for the first fine Arts, the award of the Sauad Al Sabah 2nd place in Ras Al Khaimah second festival of visual arts

ةلــسلس فــطاوع تــمأفأ

ةــيعامتجلاا ةــيمنتلا زــكرمب نوــنفلا يداــن ةــلاص ىــلع )١

ضراــعملا نــم ةرــيبك ةــعومجم اــهل نا اــمك ,م٢009 فــيطقلا لبقتــسملا ةــباوب (( يليكــشتلا يــئانثلا ضرــعملا ,اــهنم ةيصخــشلا ةــظفاحمب ةــيعامتجلاا ةــيمنتلا زــكرمب نوــنفلا يداــن ةــلاص ىــلع ,)) نــينانف ةرــشعل .دــحاو باــب نــم لــخدت لا ضرــعمو ,م٢00١ فــيطقلا م٢0١١ ترا اــماد ةــلاصب برــع ةزــئاجلا :اــهمهأ زــئاوجلا نــم ددــع ىــلع ناوــفص لا فــطاوع تــلصح نــف ةــيليتأ مــسرمل لــقنتملا يــعامجلا ضرــعملا ةقباــسم يــف ةــعبارلا نوــنفلل ثــلاثلا ةــميخلا سأر ناــجرهمب لولأا زــكرملا ةزــئاج ,م٢004

ةــيبورولأاو ةــيبرعلا لودــلا ضــعب يــف تاــينتقم

Yousef Ahmad Jaha was born in Makkah in 1954 and holds a BA degree in Art Education (1983) from Umm Al-Qura Univer sity in Makkah.

Jaha took part in most of the exhibitions held by The Saudi Arabian Society of Culture and arts, and participated in many local and international exhibitions such as: The Saudi Art Ex hibition in India 1983, The Art and culture of Saudi Exhibition in Rome 1984, The 8TH biennale in Cairo 2000, The Edge of Arabia Exhibition in London 2008 and the group exhibition “Decades” in Mono Gallery, Riyadh 2018.

His work is in numerous public and private collections inside and outside of the Kingdom such as The national Jordanian museum for fine Art, King Khaled International airport in Ri yadh, King Fahad International Airport in Dhahran, The na tional Jordanian museum for fine Art and The Saudi Hall in Mexico (General Presidency of Youth Welfare).

جــمد ىــلع اــهتقيقح يــف اــهاج ناــنفلا تلااعتــشا نــمكت ةــيحورلا تاــجامدنلاا ءيــجتل ،ناــسنلإل ةــيناوجلا ةــعيبطلاب ةــيجراخلا يــف ةرــهصنم )ءاوــهلاو راــنلاو ءاــملاو بارــتلا( ةــعيبطلا رــصانع نــيب اــبضغو اــقلق رــثكأ كــلذ عــم ودــبتل ،ةيــسفنلا اــهملاوع رــبع ،تاذــلاةطــشن ودــبت ةــيرصب ةــكرحب فــسوي ناــنفلا لاــمعأ قــلأتتو .ارــجضو ةــبخاص رــيغ ناوــلأ اــهيف رــهدزت ،ةدرــفم ةءارــقل ةملــستسم رــيغو تلااــحو رارــكتلاو ةــيطمنلا زواــجتت ةيفافــشو ومــسب اهتلاــسر يدؤــت .ةــلمملا خــسانتلا

Born in 1975 in Taif, Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Al-Thaqafi is amongst the pioneers of Saudi Arabia art scene. He has been distinguished in the art of sculpting both locally and interna tionally. The artist holds a Masters degree in Fine Art, Sculpt ing department from Umm Al Qura University where his the sis topic was “An Analytical Study of Contemporary Sculpture Trends in Saudi Arabia”.

His work has been showcased extensively in group local and international exhibitions including Exhibition of UNESCO in Austria 2007, Anamel exhibition in Germany, 2008, Misk Inter national Symposium in Riyadh 2018, and many others in Egypt, Syria, Kuwait, Oman, Morocco, and Russia.

Al Thagafi believes in research and experiment and is mainly interested in locally sourced natural mate-rials. In describing Al Thagafi’s work, Artist Youssef Matouk says: “He uses all available environmental raw materials and solids, and he mix es different mediums to be sculpted in a very magnificent style. He focuses on using the resources of his own land, thus he reflects the Arabic origins. However, he opens the door for the new artistic generation to seek uniqueness and to evolve in their own re-search.”

ةــيعمجب

نــم رــيثكلا هــل اــضيأو .برــغملاب ةــيبرعلا بــهاوملا ةــيعمج وــضعو

نــم قــقح يــتلا ،ةيليكــشتلا تاــناجرهملاو تاقباــسملاو تاكراــشملا .تــحنلا لاــجم يــف زــئاوجلا نــم دــيدعلا اــهللاخ

نــيرصاعملا نــينانفلا نــم هــنا ةــظحلام يــهيدبلا نــم نإ

.مــهب صاــخ دــيدج عــباط قــلخ يــف

لــعج عاطتــساو

Born in 1967 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Lulwah Al Homoud lives and works between United Arab Emirates and London, UK. She studied sociology at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and received a Masters degree from Central Saint Mar tins, London, UK. She also trained under distinguished Paki stani calligrapher Rasheed Butt and was inspired by Egypt’s Ahmed Moustafa to learn the theoretical system of calligra phy.

Lulwah had several gallery and museum exhibitions, includ ing at the Artspace, Dubai and at the Sundaram Tagore Gal lery, Hong Kong. Several works by the artist have been sold at auction, including ‘Allah (From the Language of Existence Se ries)’ sold at Sotheby’s Doha ‘Hurouf. There have been many articles about Lulwah Al-homoud, including ‘Don’t pigeon hole us, say Saudi women artists’ written by Rima Maktabi for CNN in 2011. And her work was chosen by Christie’s in April 2009 for their Middle East auction in Dubai.

The artist uses Islamic mathematics to recalculate the essen tial words of creation. ‘She calls it The Language of Existence’ The way in which the artist works, from an understanding that Arabic letters have proportions which represent mathe matical codes, is to use these codes to deconstruct or break letters into simpler lines as building material for new geomet rical designs.

ةــكلملا تــلثم زــماهنوبو زيبذوــس ،زيتــسيرك يــف ةــيلاع تادازــمب اــهلامعأ تــعيب

ةــيوه اــهنمض نــم تاراعــشلا نــم دــيدعلا تــممصو ٢0١0 نــيصلا ياهغنــش يــف يــلاعلا وبــسكا ضرــعم يــف يدوعــسلا 9 اــهل .يدوعــسلا حاــنجلا لــخاد ةــيرادج ١١٨ مــيمصتل ةــفاضلإاب يــف دــحاوو نوــنفلل ةقراــشلا فــحتم يــف ٢ اــهنمض نــم ةــيدرف ضراــعم يرــيلاج لاــيانو يــبد سيبــس ترلا ةــفاضلإاب طــخلل ةقراــشلا فــحتم .ضاــيرلا لاــفتحلال لاــمعأ ءاــشنلإ نــيوعدم نــييملاع نــينانف

تــناك

)نزــيام( اــبوروأ يــف نيلــسروب ةكرــش مدــقلأ ماــع 300ب

مــيدقتل يــميلعت جــمانربب يــناطيربلا فــحتملا عــم تــلمع

ةــميق تــلمعو

Born in Iraq in 1977, Sabah Arbilli received a graduate degree in Visual Arts from the University of Wales. Currently based between the United Kingdom and Qatar, Arbilli has widely exhibited throughout the Middle East, Europe, North Ameri ca, and Australia in galleries, art fairs, biennales, and institu tions.

An award winning artist, his works are housed in public and private collections, including the national collection of public sculpture in Qatar; the Islamic Museum of Australia; and the United Nations headquarters in Switzerland, where he held a solo exhibition in 2010. The artist’s recent exhibitions include Artspace Hamra (2015); Bait Muzna gallery, Oman (2015); Katara Gallery, Qatar (2015); and Qatar Foundation, Qatar (2015).

He uses the Arabic letter as an allegorical form in painting, mixed media, sculpture, ceramic, and installation. Seeking to investigate moral precepts and to inspire a revaluation of var ious themes, Arabic calligraphy allows Arbilli to create a co gent visual language as text, colour, composition, and space guide the viewer through a set of implied questions.

...ليبس

يف

a passerby in life, and leave behind a beautiful trail

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Abdul Qader Al-Rais was born in Dubai in 1951. He holds a bachelor’s degree in law and Islamic studies from the University of the Emirates in 1982. He began his artistic career even before the UAE was officially formed. A pioneer, he remains at the forefront of the Gulf vi sual arts sector, continuing to develop his own style while mentoring the next generations. During his prolific career, Al Rais was a founding member of the Emirates Fine Arts Society and the winner of numerous prizes including the first ever Sheikh Khalifa Prize for Art and Literature. Al Rais has been holding exhibitions worldwide since 1974. He has been ex hibited regionally and internationally. In Washington, DC, where his work was exhibited last year in an exhibition titled Past Forward: Contemporary Art from the Emirates. And In 2016, Al Rais participated in ‘Portrait of a Nation, one of the largest exhibitions of UAE contemporary art to date at the Abu Dhabi Festival.

His work also graces the side Metro trains traversing Dubai. and his paintings can be found in many prestigious organiza tions including Louver Paris Museum, Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi, and The British Museum.

His paintings are now created mostly with watercolours and he has dedicated a large part of his time in recent years to passing on his knowledge to budding artists.

دــيدعلا هــل

ةقراــشلا فــحتم .)يــهلدوين( ثــيدحلا نــفلا

فــحتم ،اــسنرف رــفوللا فــحتم ،نــيلرب فــحتم ، يــناطيربلا يــف ةــيرادج ةــحول ١5 و ةدــحتملا تاــيلاولا نوــنفلاو ةــفاقثلل تــسيو يــبد راــطم دــشار ةــعاق ةــمئادلا هتاكراــشمو ةددــجتملاو ةرمتــسملا ةــينفلا هتريــسمل ارــيدقت

لــصح ةــيملاعلاو ةــيبرعلاو ةــيلحملا ةــيميكحتلا ناــجللا يــف

ةــيضفلاو ةــيبهذلا زــئاوجلا

ةــعومجم ىــلع ســيرلا

Artist Mohammad Mansour Al A’ajam was born in 1946 in the town of Bisha in Asir Province. He received a diploma from the Art Institute in Riyadh in 1974 and he was the first in his class. He also received a fine art bachelor degree from Flor ence Academy of Art in Italy in 1979.

Artist Mohammad Al A’ajam participated in all the exhibitions of the Art Institute in Riyadh. For three years, he was awarded the first place amongst 60 students and received an honorary certificate and award. He also received a monetary prize from Prince Mohammed Abdullah Alfaisal Al Saud which was at the time called the Top of the Secondary School Levels Prize.

Al A’ajam represented Saudi Arabia in various international exhibitions (USA, Spain, France, Portugal, GCC, Syria, Leba non, Egypt, Korea). He also participated in the Fine Artists Exhibitions House in Jeddah since 1996 until this day in Jed dah, Makkah, Abha, Syria and Egypt. He was also represented the Artist’s House in the 2004 Group Exhibition in Syria

ةــيلخادلا بابــشلا ةــياعر

ةــيكيرملأا ةدــحتملا تاــيلاولا( ةــيجراخ ضراــعم يــف ةــكلمملا لــثم يــجيلخلا نواــعتلا ســلجم لود – لاــغتربلا – اــسنرف – اينابــسإ –تــيب ضراــعم يــف كراــشو ) اــيروك – رــصم – ناــنبل – ايروــس –ةــكمو ةدــج يــف نلآا ىــلا ١99٦ ماــعلا ذــنم ةدــجب نييليكــشتلا نــينانفلا نييليكــشتلا نــينانفلا تــيب لــيثمتب ماــق كــلذك ,رــصمو ايروــسو اــهبأو . ٢004 ماــع ايروــسب يــعامج ضرــعملا يــف

Born in Jeddah, KSA in 1958, Raeda Ashour is specialized in miniatures, motifs and Islamic decorative units, adapting them in modern interpretation to be palatable to contempo rary taste, the result of which are harmonious of variance in surface treatment, some were embossed celebrated with beautiful soft colors that pleases the eye.

Obtaining BA in Middle East Studies from University of Cairo in 1981 and Master of Arts in Art Education from Rushmore University in 2007, Raeda showcased her artworks in numer ous galleries and festivals around the globe, such as “The Ul timate Journey” at Dolmabahce Gallery (Istanbul, 2012), the Saudi Cultural Week in Russia (2007), and many others.

The journey in celebrating heritage is ever so evident in her artworks. The architectural elements and depicted detail re veal a strong and confident visualization and realization of aesthetic components known to be prevalent in the Islamic art and ornamentation. Ashour continues her artistic journey in researching and analyzing different cultures that came across or lived parallel to Islamic arts and eastern trends and styles. Her aim is to find aesthetic compositions and elements that she can be inspired by, emphasize and reinterpret in her own style that makes her art unique and distinctive, as well as celebrate the art of these cultures of different ethnic back grounds nonetheless respected worldwide.

نــم رــيثكلا ةيدوعــسلا ةــنانفلا تــلان نــم ةــيريدقت ةزــئاج و ٢00٢ ةيدوعــسلا ةــيجراخلا ةرازو – ريفــسلا ةدــع نأ ىــلإ ةــفاضإ , ١995 نوــنفلا و ةــفاقثلل ةيدوعــسلا ةــيعمجلا روــشاع ةــنانفلا لاــمعأ يــنتقت ةــيملاع و ةــيلحم تاــهجو تاــسسؤم ةرادإ و ةيدوعــسلا ةــيجراخلا ةرازو لــثم ةــصاخلا اــهتعومجم نــمض ةــفاقثلل ةــيروصنملا ةــسسؤم و ةدــج يــف يراــجتلا كــنبلا يــف ةــصاخلا .عادــبلإا و