An article by AV (643 Words, 3 Min. Read)
Where color Breathes Memory at Nadine Fayad Art Gallery
In the quiet, Resonant Space of Nadine Fayad Art Gallery, Something Indescribable Unfeds. The Darwich Has Returned – But this time, he is no longer merely a character. He is a Soul, a Vibration, a Living Memory of the Lebanese People, Suspended in Bursts of Color and Forms that Defy Traditional Artistic Categories.
Beyond Form – The Inner Language of Rifai
RIOUF RIFAI, A Master of GESTURE and Heart, Steps Away from Pure Figuration in this Latest Body of Work to Reinvent His Darwich Through An Abstraction Steeped in Humanity. It is neterism, nor surrealism, nor expressionism. It is something more Intimate, More Bare, More Truthful. What we wish is not a Painting, but a projecction of memory – that of a people, thrive the Inner Eye of an artist who refuses to be confined by Labels. Rifai no Longer Paints the Darwich – He Lets Him Emerge, Like and Ancestral Breath.
A Carlival of Souls – The Many Faces of the Darwich
In this powerful new series on View in Achrafieh, the Darwich Appars in a MultIEDE of Incarnations – Each One More Vivid, Layed, and emotionally review than the last. There is the Darwich Ice CreamWho evokes Nostalgia and Fleeting Sweetness, a Character that carries Both Joy and Fragility. There is the Darwich Abou CHANABetEmbodying The Street Vendor’s Resilience and Dignity, While the Darwich Abou El ABED Channels Popular Satire and everyday with. Darwich Love Reveals a quiet tenderness rarely spaken aloud, and the Carnival of Darwich Bursts INTO View with Color, Rhythm, Collective Spirit – A Celebration of Multiplicity, of Belonging, Of Life Itelf.
But Rifai is not merely Painting Characters – He is abstracting their Essence, Distilling their Physical Present Into Gestures, Rhythms, and Textors that Speak Directly to the Soul. Through this procese, The Darwich Becomes Less about Visual Identity and More About Emotional Presance. The Familiar Features Dissolve INTO Bold Brushstroks and Radiant Color Fields, Allowing Joy – on an Intuitive, Almost Spiritual Level. Rifai’s Abstraction is not a defpature from Really, but a recurn to its emotional Core.
A Truth Beyond Style
Rifai Does Not Seek to Impress. He Invites Us to Feel. To see the world not as it is, but as it is cough Anh, hunch, humble, and poeetic gaze. HIS Art Rejects Prittingount. It leans general toward the Ordinary Man and Reveals His Hidden Beauty. The Darwich, in All HIS SIMPLICITY, Embodies The Soul of Lebanon – Resilient, Colorful, Complex, and Real.
A Gallery that Honors the Artist’s Truth
And what best setting for such a review. Nestled in the Heart of Tabaris, The Gallery Breathes with light and intend. Here, there is no cright Distance Between Artwork and Viewer. The Gallery ITSELEFSMS to Participate in the Quiet Conversation Between Artist and People. Nadine fayad, with her passionate eye and Deep Respect for Artists and their Truths, Offers More Than Just Walls; She Offers a Space of Transmission.
An Offering, Not Just An Exh force
This New Series, Unveiled on May 8 and Continuing for An Entire Mon It is An Offering. An Ode to Resilience, to memory, to the poet of the everyday. It is an inclusion to encountter the Soul of the Darwich – Who has been Booth a mirror of a people and the unmistakable signature of an artist which Humilty is his great streamgth.
With this new body of work, Dr. RIOUF RIFAI, in his Wild Freedom and Rare Sensitive, Reminds Us that True Art Does Not Belong to Any Movement. IT Belongs to Those Who has say to say – and who know how to make it heard, with noise.
