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Khalil El Hakim

Lebanon

email: elhakims@hotmail.com

Biography

Artist's Statement

"She is our Mirror"
4800 LE (US $ 800)

She is our Mirror

“Remember me. This is my face and this is my body,” she said to them.
This is the Egyptian Alia Al Mahdi who angered people by exposing her body through the internet.
She didn’t care, and it made no difference to her what people said.
She spoke intuitively, “I am Eve who gave birth to Adam’s children.”
Alia is truly an artist who is entirely free in all senses of the word.
I liked the way she expressed herself, and why shouldn’t I?
She is not the first to speak out like this; it’s been done before.
She said, “My body is mine, not other’s.”

In my painting, the face she doesn’t want anyone to forget takes over the canvas making it lively and bringing out the woman in her. Her piercing eyes look right into you, penetrate you. Her nose is like those of the Egyptian pharaohs. Her curly hair is painted with the colors of the rainbow. The background colors are bright, sharp and dazzling. Yellow livens up the red, and brown and green sing with the blue. In this perfect harmony of colors, even grey seems to glow with the others.

My idea is to show how different cultures are and yet how dependent they can be on each other. The product is an interesting mixture of intermingled ideas and techniques that reflects the beauty and richness of the communication between the East and West cultures.

I consider art a part of daily life and as dependent of all other intellectual disciplines like science, politics, medicine, business to name just a few. Art is a product of profound reflection, and the plastic arts constitute of the most direct and universal bridge between people and ideas. Antonio Tapies, a post-modern artist said, “If painting today did not make us tremble or at least disturb some of us, it would mean we have failed.”

 


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