"Hala Schoukair on Art and Nature, Patterns, Mimimalism and connecting with the Environment" - ART BREATH

Artistic patterns and organic shapes based on nature stretch across Hala Schoukair's art with a soothing and ethereal delight. Nature’s essence and sensation is at home throughout Schoukair's paintings.

Her works of art zoom into earth’s landscape, emerging with spectacular waves of sequences, receptive to the depicted environment, taking the viewer’s sentiments onto other worldly and mystical artistic scenes.

Schoukair’s enticing art often expresses itself with one colour, echoing out in multiple shades, and cocooning within her floral motifs and repetitive brushstrokes, powerful messages evoked in a gentle and sensitive manner.

This May at MENART FAIR in Paris, Hala Schoukair will be exhibiting with La Galerie Bessières Art Contemporain. As we await to view her paintings connecting nature with art, we spoke to the artist on her work and inspirations...

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"Serge Najjar on Photography, Perspectives, Architecture, Capturing Shadow and Light, and The Lebanon" - ART BREATH

Serge Najjar’s photography transcends time and space, capturing images that transform architectural design and buildings into patterns and shapes, basking in both light and shadow.

The alluring images transport the viewer from an urban setting to a world of perspectives. Visually impactful, ordered lines and a variety of angles travel across Najjar's photographs.

Najjar’s artistic eye unveils through his work a dance with light and pattern and a landscape of thoughts to engage with. The photographer’s lens on the Lebanon reveals itself through symmetry, reflection, illusion and reality. The country's past and present, the visible and invisible dilute into the photographs, defined instead in geometric shapes, concrete, structures, buildings, radiance, angles, and in hope. A set of photographs which are both compelling and engaging.

This May in Paris Serge Najjar’s work will be exhibited at MENART Fair with La Galerie Bessières Art Contemporain. As we await to discover at the fair his works on the theme of “Chasing Realms”, we spoke to Najjar about photography and what this art evokes for him...

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"Rencontre avec le dessinateur au trait divin, Octave Marsal" - BEWARE!, 25 Janvier 2022

Octave Marsal, c’est un artiste dont les œuvres vous marquent d’un seul regard ou plutôt d’un unique scroll via son compte Instagram, tant son coup de crayon est précis et les décors qu’il plante au gré de ses planches sont majestueux.
Il y a longtemps que ce petit génie du dessin ne me laisse pas indifférente. L’oeuvre qui un jour m’a totalement subjugué, c’est “La Cité Cavalière”, un magnifique croquis d’une monture digne des plus grands destriers de la Rome Antique, enfermée dans une cité aux courbes aussi parfaites qu’irréelles, le tout tissé dans un carré de soie signé Hermès. Cette alliance du dessin à la mode, prend tout son sens lorsque l’on découvre qu’Octave Marsal a été diplômé en 2014 de la prestigieuse Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design de Londres – où ont étudié des designers de renommée mondiale tels qu’Alexander McQueen, Kim Jones ou encore Riccardo Tisci – avant d’obtenir en 2017, un Master en Art au Royal College of Art.

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