MEMAC OGILVY Kuwait welcomes ‘Advertising Person of the Year’ In line with the annual regional tour, Memac Ogilvy Kuwait welcomed Founder, Chairman and CEO of Memac Ogilvy- Edmond Moutran, at the annual Red Breakfast event which was held at the Sheraton Four Points hotel. Mr. Moutran met with the local team to recognize outstanding efforts and demonstration of impactful work over the year. During the Red Breakfast event, a number of employees were honored for their long-standing years in the agency and for their commitment in contributing to the success of Memac Ogilvy. Also during the same event, the ‘Employee of the Year’ was exceptionally awarded to Mayson Kamah, Senior Art Director, for her outstanding performance and dedication in 2013. In his speech made during the ceremony, Mr. Moutran congratulated everyone for winning the Lynx ‘Network of the Year’ in Dubai on March 12th, 2014.Memac Ogilvy Dubai received on the same date ‘Agency of the Year’ honors. It is worth noting that during the same evening, Mr. Moutran himself received ‘Advertising Person of the Year’ honors from the organizers of the Lynx Festival.
50 YEARS OF PRINTMAKING Mohamed Omar Khalil showcased his exhibition “50 Years of Printmaking” on Wednesday the 23rd of April at the Contemporary Art Platform (CAP). The works, many of which had never been exhibited before, present an alternative reading of the artist’s entire career, not only as a traveler between cultures and epochs, but as re-interpreter of the meaning of visual culture in general: He attempts to re-locate sensorial experience elsewhere than with the pure colors that characterize the postmodern, hereby searching in the black, for a warmer place where his book of art and life meets the viewer. Applying a traditional technique acquired from European print-makers from earlier centuries, Khalil’s etchings on black represent with vividness all his pictorial periods, from the early student days investigating modern art through his numerous travels, the experiments with abstract figures, and ultimately renditions of tributes to modern music and classical painting. Withdrawing from the visual field, the artist is opening the possibility of entering the world with an altogether different morphology, causing apparently unrelated elements to collide into each other and emerge as distinct syntactic compositions. A precise amalgamation between folkloric elements and handicraft, and the timeless quality of art history, give birth to composite worlds with life of their own. The last day of the exhibition is Sunday June 15th.
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