Galerie Claude Lemand

LIGHTS OF LEBANON - Donation Claude & France Lemand to the IMA Museum, Paris.
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Artists of the Donation :
 Shafic ABBOUD (Lebanon, 1926 - France, 2004)
 Azza ABO REBIEH (Syria, 1980 - Lebanon)
 Sara ABOU MRAD (Lebanon, 1988 - France)
 Etel ADNAN (Lebanon, 1925 - USA-France, 2021)
 ADONIS (Syria, 1930 - Lebanon, France)
 Anas ALBRAEHE (Syria, 1991 - Lebanon-France)
 Abed ALKADIRI (Lebanon, 1984 - France-Lebanon)
 Farid AOUAD (Lebanon, 1924 - France, 1982)
 ASSADOUR (Lebanon, 1943 - France)
 Zena ASSI (Lebanon, 1974 - United Kingdom)
 Philippe AUDI-DOR (Switzerland, 1989 - Lebanon-France)
 Ayman BAALBAKI (Lebanon, 1975)
 Amin EL-BACHA (Lebanon, 1932-2019)
 Nader BAHSOUN (Liban, 1995)
 Serwan BARAN (Iraq, 1968 - Liban-Egypte)
 Anachar BASBOUS (Lebanon, 1969)
 Michel BASBOUS (Lebanon, 1921-1981)
 Sara CHAAR (USA, 1986 - Lebanon-France)
 Ali CHAMS (Lebanon, 1943-2019)
 Chaouki CHOUKINI (Lebanon, 1946 - France)
 Tagreed DARGHOUTH (Lebanon, 1979)
 Ieva Saudargaité DOUAIHI (Ukraine, 1988 - Lebanon)
 Fatima ELHAJJ (Lebanon, 1953 - France)
 Joseph ELHOURANY (Lebanon, 1976)
 Tarek ELKASSOUF (Lebanon, 1985 - Australia)
 Mohammad ELRAWAS (Lebanon, 1951)
 Hala EZZEDDINE (Lebanon, 1989)
 Simone FATTAL (Syria, 1942 - Lebanon-USA-France)
 Sirine FATTOUH (Lebanon, 1980 - France)
 Laure GHORAYEB (Lebanon, 1931-2023)
 Elsa GHOUSSOUB (Lebanon, 19?)
 Marc GUIRAGOSSIAN (Berlin, 1995 - Lebanon)
 Paul GUIRAGOSSIAN (Palestine-Jerusalem, 1926 - Lebanon, 1993)
 Souraya HADDAD Credoz (Lebanon, 1962 - Canada-Istanbul-Lebanon)
 Yazan HALWANI (Lebanon, 1993 - United Kingdom)
 Hiba KALACHE (Lebanon, 1972 - USA)
 Elie KANAAN (Lebanon, 1926-2009)
 Abderrahman KATANANI (Lebanon, 1983 - France-Lebanon)
 Mazen KERBAJ (Lebanon, 1975 - Berlin)
 Hussein MADI (Lebanon, 1938-2024)
 Hala MATTA (Lebanon, 1970 - France)
 Samar MOGHARBEL (Lebanon, 1958)
 Jamil MOLAEB (Lebanon, 1948)
 Ribal MOLAEB (Lebanon, 1988 - Switzerland)
 Zad MOULTAKA (Lebanon, 1967 - France)
 Elias NAFAA (Lebanon, 1997 - Canada)
 Layal NAKHLE (Côte-d’Ivoire, 1992 - Lebanon-Espagne)
 Moazzaz RAWDA (Iraq, 1906 - Lebanon, 1986)
 Nayla ROMANOS ILIYA (Lebanon, 1961)
 Marwan SAHMARANI (Lebanon, 1970)
 Nadia SAIKALI (Lebanon, 1936 - France)
 François SARGOLOGO (Lebanon, 1955 - France)
 Joseph SASSINE (Lebanon, 1936)
 Oumaya Alieh SOUBRA (Liban, 1926-2024)
 Hanibal SROUJI (Lebanon, 1957 - Canada-France-Lebanon)
 Hady SY (Lebanon, 1964 - France-USA-Lebanon)
 Khaled TAKRETI (Lebanon, 1964 - Syria-France)
 Missak TERZIAN (Lebanon, 1949 - USA-Lebanon)
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Claude Lemand. (extracts)

By Enlightenment I mean the Lebanese per­son­al­i­ties who made Beirut the city of lights of the Orient, who shone in all eras of its tor­mented his­tory, even if over the decades, the dom­i­nant clans have plunged Lebanon into polit­ical, eco­nomic, finan­cial, social, health and even cul­tural chaos. But Lebanon remains a country from which light shines.

Lights of Lebanon is a col­lec­tion of modern and con­tem­po­rary art from cross-border Lebanon. It intends to bear wit­ness to the great cre­ativity of three gen­er­a­tions of artists from Lebanon and its dias­poras, from 1950 to 2024, and to shed light on the orig­i­nality, rich­ness and uni­ver­sality of their cre­ations, through the col­lec­tion of the Museum of the Arab World Institute, which has become excep­tional thanks to the Claude & France Lemand Donation. Lights of Lebanon will allow us to express our sol­i­darity with the Lebanese people and with the world of arts and cul­ture, deeply bruised by such an accu­mu­la­tion of crimes and ordeals, to pay tribute to Beirut, city of light in the Middle East.

This col­lec­tion will allow us to bear wit­ness to the lumi­nous face of another Lebanon - a country so dear to the heart of the late Shafic Abboud -, a melting pot of civ­i­liza­tions and cul­tures scat­tered across the five con­ti­nents. This Lebanon, inventor of the mer­chant navy and the alphabet, factor of mil­lennia-old links between peo­ples, cre­ator at the end of the 19th cen­tury of the sec­ular and anti­cler­ical Nahda, this renais­sance of lan­guage, let­ters and polit­ical thought and social life of a new, modern Arab world, freed as much from the yoke of the Ottomans as from the beliefs and pro­hi­bi­tions of reli­gions and scle­rotic and feudal soci­eties. Daughter of the Enlightenment, this Lebanese Nahda was atten­tive to the Eastern and Western world, and its authors, from Lebanon and the dias­poras that appeared after the mas­sacres of 1860 then the Ottoman oppres­sion and the great famine of 1915-1917. The Lebanese Nahda was much more ambi­tious and rev­o­lu­tionary than its sister the Egyptian Nahda, which aimed to reform tra­di­tional Islam, without ques­tioning it as dogma, morality, cult and state reli­gion.