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.
