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International Art Exhibition,Lebanese Diaspora,Catalog.Pdf 16th - 31st March | 2010 Dome City Center - Beirut Art is a strong expressive language For the first time, NDU is hosting this which silently conveys thoughts, worries, unique event when Lebanese artists feelings, dreams, aspirations and pain coming from all regions of the world of the artist. It is through a diverse array join their fellow countrymen and exhibit of art works expressed in paintings, their work on their beloved homeland. multimedia, photography, and other Their achievements and success speak media that we can experience and sense louder than the bias media which con- the lives of Lebanese living in a country tinuously portray Lebanon as the land struggling to emerge from long years of instability. Their loyalty to a country of controversy and dispute as well as they may be seeing for the first time is the lives of Lebanese who left their land the motivation and reason for their years ago. It is also our hope that this presence here today. exhibition will portray the spirits to future generations who are discovering Never before has FAAD-NDU been keener their homeland through the eyes of on its commitment to the development their ancestors. of art and culture reflected through different cultural particularities in the midst FAAD-NDU has hosted a number of of globalization. Lebanese Diaspora is a distinguished international conferences unique experience of art and cultural on a variety of topics. And today we diversity united in spirit and place. are experiencing once more the awareness of this institution of its diversified A rich and diverse collection awaits you. developments within the contemporary world. The Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design (FAAD) and the Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC), at Notre Dame University-Louaize, have invited artists from Lebanon and abroad to participate in a contemporary art exhibition on Lebanese Diaspora. Habib Melki FAAD Acting Dean - 2010 This exhibition dates back to the middle This juried art exhibition does not seek to art galleries and Lebanese communities The initiative of Notre Dame University, The event will be fertile ground attracting of the last decade as we were attempt- explain, endorse, justify, or excuse the around the world to have the exhibition Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design, artists from the four corners of the world. ing to collect non-textual material on perceptions depicted in these paintings, travel to them. in promoting, organizing and managing Lebanese migration. While looking for or offer any historical account of Leba- a contemporary art exhibition on the Artists that are already of confirmed visual resources and artifacts related nese migration, but rather to merely We are grateful to the artists who Lebanese Diaspora represents for the fame and others of not less importance to the Lebanese diaspora, we became offer perspectives and expose percep- responded to the call for paintings event organizing committee members that will have the event propel them aware of the unique role played by tions. The exhibition hopes to stimulate by providing us with an explosion of and myself a formidable challenge. onto the realm of recognition and images, both painting and photography. interaction between the artists and diverse expressions that is stimulating, added success. viewers, to invoke discussion and critical exhilarating, and thought provoking, as A challenge that assumes ever-increasing The main objective of this exhibition thinking, and to challenge perceptions, well as beautiful. importance and gravity as time brings This event will further contribute in is to create a visual memory of the stereotyping, and prejudice. We hope us closer to the event date and as the promoting contemporary art in Lebanon, Lebanese diaspora by providing artists that viewing the exhibition will be huge and diversified workload, borne trusting that this and other similar around the world and in Lebanon with a journey into self-questioning and successfully so far by our team members, future events will create a global artistic the opportunity to reflect on their learning. reveals, day after day, all the prestigious momentum that will shed light on our personal relationship to migration facets of such excellent cultural true Lebanese artistic culture and through paintings and photographs. We invite you to look beneath the manifestation. heritage. Visual sources can provide powerful surface of the subjects of these artistic insights into a topic; they can help deepen displays and to delve into the impressions I would never have imagined in the first our understanding of this topic and imbedded in them. days of our project such intensive allow us to explore its diverse facets We are hoping that the exhibition will involvement and intense efforts as well – the way they are constructed and not only allow viewers to learn about as the quality of all event elements depicted in a specific cultural setting. migration through the arts, but to be combined. We have contacted and added inspired to discuss real issues concerning far to our event team, amongst others, By opening up participation in the migrants and migration. eminent names in the world of con- exhibition to Lebanese artists residing in temporary art, as well as art critics of the country, to artists abroad of Lebanese Another objective of the exhibition is world renown, to compose our excellent descent, and to non-Lebanese artists to establish the first art Gallery of the event Jury. around the world, we were aiming to Lebanese Diaspora at the Lebanon capture a glimpse of how Lebanese and Migration Museum at Notre Dame resident artists perceive Lebanese University-Louaizé. We are hoping that migration, how artists of Lebanese many of the participating artists will descent identify their link to this migration, donate their artwork to the university and how others perceive Lebanese to become part of the permanent migration and immigrants. exhibition. We plan to cooperate with Guita Hourani Danielle Zaccour Director of LERC Chairperson Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous Acting Director of LERC Committees Honorary Chairperson Fr. Walid Moussa, NDU President, Notre Dame University-Louaize, Lebanon Lebanese Diaspora | List of Exhibitors in alphabetical order Steering Committee Mr. Habib Melki, Acting Dean Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design (FAAD) Ms. Guita Hourani, Director of Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC) Ms. Danielle Zaccour, Art & Design Department Mr. Nadim Matta, Chairperson of the Art and Design Department Dr. Jean Pierre Asmar, Chairperson of the Architecture Department Organizing Committee Mr. Andre Bechara Ms. Graziella Daghfal Mr. John Kortbawi Ms. Roula Majdalani Mr. Noel Nasr Ms. Danielle Zaccour - Exhibition Chairperson & Jury Coordinator Ms. Romy Assouad (NDU alumni) - “Lebanese Diaspora” facebook page administrator Jury Committee Ms. Sylvia Ajemian Mr. Gregory Buchakjian Mr. Joseph Tarrab Mr. Samir Sayegh Ms. Maha Sultan www.ndu.edu.lb/artdiaspora e-mail: [email protected] Notre Dame University- Louaize Zouk Mosbeh- Lebanon tel 961 9 218 950 fax 961 218 771 www.ndu.edu.lb Laudi Abilama Most of Laudi Abilama’s work embodies Starting in December 2005, at Deir This artwork is part of a series of 6 portraits what she likes to call ‘Arabian Pop’. Al Kalaa Country Club, Beirut, Laudi I have been working on using Charcoal on This she believes to be a reflection of participated in other exhibitions in Syrian tapestry of ordinary people that I have everything that has been and is currently the city as well exhibiting in Dubai met and pictured in rural areas of Lebanon popular in the Middle East. Contrary and in Kuwait. (mostly near the border between Lebanon to what is represented in Western and and Syria). Eastern media, the Middle East houses In 2009 Laudi exhibited at the 29th Contrary to my previous works which feature many talents of many backgrounds. Salon d’Automne, Sursock Museum, famous Arab celebrities from the past, I have Beirut, Lebanon, Bastakiya Art Fair, found it interesting to introduce a new Over the years it has been her aim to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and technique and theme to the portraits I do. represent popular figures and objects XVème Summer Art Show Dubai, UAE. from the Middle East in a more positive The purpose of choosing a new medium way. However, she has recently found Her upcoming exhibitions will be (Syrian tapestry) to work on rather than herself questioning the irony of West at Bastakiya Art Fair in March 2010, canvas is to show the relationship between vs. East in terms of the representation and ‘Arab Heroes’in Beirut the Lebanon and Syria and how maybe contrary of Arabism and therefore embedding following April. to public perception, there is both rivalry a wittier tone in her compositions and friendship certainly amongst the general and artworks. population, which is evident even more so in the middle/lower classes than in politics and political relations between both countries. In addition to this, I have chosen a new medium (charcoal) to describe the lines and contours of each persons face in order to show depth and tones of each individual character. This is in contrast to the ways in which I have presented more popular people (celebrities) in the past which may have appeared quite minimalist. Hana, 2009 Charcoal on Syrian Tapestry 135 x 167 cm 10 Fadi Abou Kheir Fadi Abou Kheir was the youngest child Settling in the village of JEITA between of a family well known and influenced the grotto and the forests, Fadi initiated by artists and musicians. his personal style of art work, paintings using various elements from nature such Fadi was greatly influenced by his eldest as sand, wood, and small rocks, according brother, Sami, a portraitist. Sami was to the theme that he wants to illustrate. also Fadi’s school teacher at the Central College of Jounieh, from whom he learnt Fadi has participated in several exhibitions the basics of the art world.
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