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Hosni Radwan
The artist:
In his tenth solo exhibit and the second at the Khalil Sakakini
Cultural Centre, the artist Hosni Radwan manages to create yet
another outstanding success in his art works. He manages to
transcend the reality of the color red, through the use of water
colors and acrylic paints on canvas, by creating a new and
dominant existence, “a presence of places”, in lashes and a
background of scarlet. ."
The exhibit:
“In the course of acknowledging, confronting and therefore
expressing the world in a more exposing manner, refusing and
releasing it out of the scope of the self that has been tortured
with the pains of exile since childhood, it is not enough for that
self to observe the world, which rotates around its contradictions
and is encircled in suffering and pain, or to grow in a world not
your own, distinct in its own mosaics and formations. Here in
Baghdad, the years of the sixties will be portrayed in the small
pathways, winding allies and its high edifices, those of the
Baghdadi houses that were set in a way which could enable its
inhabitants to face the midsummer and the madness of the songs
that behold the moans of pain from those who are ill, being
enchanted by the infinite beauty of the scene. This scene, which
is made up of the harmonious merges of shadow, light and earthly
colors, represented the shadow of the desert that resides near
that city. And I was the eyewitness of such beauty and this led me
to expose the secret of the wound that was formed in the shadows
of the humid bending walls in Taht Al-Tikkiyeh Quarter, in the
middle of Baghdad. That world, with all its minute details, was
simple and beautiful; it managed to ease thinking of an obscure
future.”
“The elementary school,
the waters penetrating the small paths like a palpitating vein
spreading in the curves of the city, the yellow light gleaming
from the cracks of the surfaces and a sun that chars the tinplates
that cover the rooftops of the houses and colors the walls and,
maybe those pictures formed a guide towards drawing, being the
only outlet that would separate between the feeling of
estrangement and a global creation of the self.”
Source: Sakakini |
