A graduate from the College of Fine Arts of the Lebanese University in Beirut in 1983, Artist Chucralla Fattouh has a wide artistic experience, since then. From 1985 to date, the artist has conducted more than 150 group and personal exhibitions in art galleries and festivals in Lebanon and abroad.
The opening of “The Language of Sunset” Exhibition By the Lebanese Artist, Chucralla Fattouh will open Under the patronage of Her Highness Dr, Sayyida Mona Bint Fahad Al Said, assistant vice-chancellor for international cooperation at Sultan Qaboos University, at the Sarah Gallery, Bait Al Zubair on Wednesday, December 1
“The Language of Sunset” will remain open from December 1 to December 11, 2021 – from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm – from Saturday to Thursday at Sarah Gallery in Bait Al Zubair Museum.
A graduate from the College of Fine Arts of the Lebanese University in Beirut in 1983, Artist Chucralla Fattouh has a wide artistic experience, since then.
From 1985 to date, the artist has conducted more than 150 group and personal exhibitions in art galleries and festivals in Lebanon and abroad. Elkan, Virginia, Tunisia, and Brazil. The artist also exhibited his works in the Bait Muzna gallery in Muscat 2015.
He has participated in many national and international exhibitions and auctions, such as the Bonhams Art Auction House and recently at Sotheby’s, and received many awards and honours, most notably the Queen Elizabeth II award in 2007, in his participation in the live painting of the charitable horse race in the annual Gulf Polo Cup in London.
The artist belongs to the Lebanese coastal village of Monsef. In the early sixties, and since his childhood, he used to observe the waves, the sky, and the clouds that took root in his memory. Inspired by the beauty of his fair coastal city, he painted those scenes and colours full of life that he saw every day.
The artist was able to create for him an artistic imprint that can be distinguished from any other artwork by the symbolism of the characters, and the minimization of flat geometric shapes in the spaces that surround the subject.
As for the current exhibition at Sarah Gallery, the artist Chucralla Fattouh presents his recently produced works from the Sunset Language series, which was the main inspiration for this collection in the coastal village of Monsef.
This collection takes us on a journey to the artist’s world of bright vocabulary and formations, where his works explain the inner self or an essential personal vision of the sunset and its impact on the world.
The artist belongs to the Lebanese coastal village of Monsef. In the early sixties, and since his childhood, he used to observe the waves, the sky, and the clouds that took root in his memory.
He says: “Sunset Language Group tells the story of sun whispering her secrets before disappearing at sunset, passing between the bodies of her loved ones and changing their language from an auditory language to a visual language full of warmth and silence.”
The artist documents this moment and has called it the new language of the sun and painted it to preserve the language of sunset.
In addition, the artist presents his series “Living with a foreign body”, where the artist says that the whole world lives with foreign bodies daily. At first, they become afraid, and then gradually they begin to adapt to the foreign bodies around them, so they become part of their world.
Here, the artist captures the image or the first impression of this encounter, which carries many ambiguities, raises the question of the viewer, and the artist does not tell the story, but leaves it to the viewer to imagine and explain it.
It is worth noting that the artist Cucralla Fattouh inspired his sons, as a family also practices art, where his son shares with him a short film of his production and artworks in the current exhibition.
Artist Nicholas is a visual artist and film director. Graduated from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts with a master’s degree in Animation. He participated in more than 30 exhibitions and auctions locally and internationally including Bonham (London) where he sold 6 paintings in 2016. In 2018, his debut film “How My Grandmother Became on a Chair” was awarded the Robert Bosch Stiftung Film Award as a German-Lebanese co-production during the Berlinale.
Today, this award-winning short film has been selected in more than 80 prestigious festivals around the world (10 Oscar-qualifying festivals) and has won 21 awards including the Sundance TV and Carthage Awards.
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