Jaber Alwan
Untitled, 2005
Oil on canvas
75 x 100 cm (29 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.)
Courtesy of Abdulrahman Alzayani Photographed by Khalid Bin Afif
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Yara El-Sherbini
The End of History, 2013
Book Cover, hole punch paper
40 x 40 cm (16 x 16 in.)
Edition of 3
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Jean-Baptiste Huynh
Mali Slate
Photographic print
44 x 44 cm
Edition of 12
Moataz Nasr
El Thaher wa El baten (The Manifest and the Un-manifest) - Compassion, 2010
C-print Diasec mounted on Dibond
170 x 170 cm (66 7/8 x 66 7/8 in.)
Edition of 5
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Giovanni Ozzola
Illuminarsi, 2012
Neon wire
Diameter 70 cm
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Larissa Sansour
Palestinaut, 2010
Hard vinyl sculptures
30 cm tall
Edition of 100 Courtesy of Larissa Sansour Photographed by Khalid Bin Afif
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UBIK
Rant#4 (Where is everybody rushing to?), 2012
Laser Engraved Wood Block
50 x 35 x 7 cm (19 5/8 x 13 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Edition of 3
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"A lone woman lays back on a golden couch staring deeply into the void before her, with what appears to be a book in hand etched in oil across the canvas.
It is ambiguous whether she is exasperated, in thought or dazed. This feeling of being transported into another world, where your surroundings become a mere blur is relevant to the realm that literature can carry you to. The written word has the power to hit you on every level, spiritually, emotionally and intellectually. It allows you to leave yourself behind and for a moment drift you into an unfamiliar world. She lays on a yellow couch, almost golden, illuminating her immediate. The vibrancy of the couch extends and blends into her. This golden hue symbolises the golden age of female emancipation, which saw the written word project them into liberation from the social and political shackles imposed upon them.
This piece is both powerful and empowering and an ode to the might of language and literature."
- Abdulrahman Al Zayani
Athr Gallery, in collaboration with Al Madad Foundation, is pleased to announce Pen to Paper, a group exhibition of works from private collections across the Middle East in support of literacy programs for disadvantaged children.
An auction conducted by Sotheby’s will accompany the opening of the exhibition, the proceeds of which will fund Al Madad Foundation's affiliated education initiative Iqra’ for disadvantaged Lebanese children, as well as Palestinian and Syrian refugee children in Lebanon.
Pen to Paper will serve as an arena to display the invaluable pieces accumulated across the region and give the main contributors and supporters of the contemporary art world a platform to share their understanding and reasoning behind their choices, in a bid to plant the seed of inspiration amongst future generations. This group exhibition is specifically curated to create a dialogue between artists, collectors, and audience and aims to question the diffusion of information, notions of knowledge and truth as well as the power of misinformation.
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