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Samer Saem Eldahr?Syrian
Untitled II (The Complete Human Being series)
2011
Signed
Unframed
Oil on canvas
101 x 89 cm
Guide Price £1,750
“
Samer is a Syrian-born artist, currently living in
Beirut, Lebanon. He is an abstract expressionist
painter known for his bold colourful figures.
Since he graduated from the Faculty of Fine
Arts at the University of Aleppo, Samer has
employed a variety of mediums and techniques
to develop a unique style. He has participated in
a number of group exhibitions and two of his
paintings are held in the Syrian Ministry of
Culture art collection.
My basic field of thought is the exploration of the depth of the inner
human condition, its transformations and the illustration of the conflict
resulting from binary ways of thinking and feeling. A person captured in
art is often restricted to only a single emotion, such as sadness, joy or
meditation ... this depiction is a f ixed snapshot of human limits and ‘the
photographer’ is unable to reflect true internal feelings. As a result he
cannot achieve the exact representation of the psychological condition
that is caused by binary emotions – for example, happiness and sadness,
positive and negative, good and evil. Reality does not explain those
binaries, and it assumes that the human condition is relatively stable.
In my opinion, the integration of a human being can appear by figuration
of this binary, which also imposes a relative state of deformation. The
psychological situation, resulting from this eternal struggle, lends itself
to the limits of visual reality. This series was painted from mid-2011 to
the end of that year, mostly at the College of Fine and Applied Arts in
Aleppo, when the tension in Aleppo was still in its early stages and the
voices of protest at the University of Aleppo was the music that played
in the background every afternoon while I was drawing.
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