Featured Artist
ALIVE MEMORY
Solo Exhibition by Ibrahim Khatab eclecticacontemporary.co.za
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illiam Schuman has written that the arts are crucial to our automated age. They serve as a creative illimination to counteract the push button emptiness of our mechanised lives, an armour against the disillusion and anxiety of our times and an added defense against the destructive forces inherent in man. As artists’ we try to make people more “human”, bridge gaps and offer an alternative to the negative bombardment of political media coverage. We are exposed daily to negative images and commentary about the Middle East.
Eclectica Contemporary has therefore invited Ibrahim Khatab, an Egytian Artist, to showcase another aspect of the Middle East. In stark contrast, the emphasis is on tradition, love, beauty and a celebration of life. The Cairo born, and based artist, passionately uses Calligraphy to express beauty, lost memory and a moment in time. Ibrahim currently lectures at the National University of Cairo and has exhibited both locally and internationally. His art showcases his knowledge and technical skills of paintings, installations and video art. Ibrahim’s artworks exhibited at Eclectica are predominantly mixed media on wooden board. This body of work visually expresses the artist’s deep love of calligraphy, as well as colour, space ,movement and arabic script which all factor heavily in his practice.
Untitled, 2018 Mixed media on Board 141.5 x 127 cm
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