LIGHTS FROM LEBANON 1950-2021.

From 4 to 11 August 2023 - Galerie Claude Lemand

  • BAALBAKI, Yuk.

    Yuk (Cupboard), 2012. Polyptych. Acrylic on wood panel, 235 x 230 cm. Donation Claude and France Lemand. Museum, Institut du monde arabe, Paris. © Ayman Baalbaki. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • Abboud, L’Aube.

    L'Aube, 2003. Oil on canvas, 105 x 120 cm. Monograph page 292. Donation Claude & France Lemand. Museum, Institut du monde arabe, Paris. © Succession Shafic Abboud. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • Etel Adnan, Landscape.

    Landscape, 2014. Oil on canvas, 32 x 41 cm. Donation Claude & France Lemand. Museum, Institut du monde arabe, Paris. © The Estate of Etel Adnan. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

LIGHTS FROM LEBANON. Artists of Lebanon, 1950-2021.

Claude Lemand:
"Artists often say that Lebanon’s nat­ural light is excep­tional. But by "light" I mean above all the per­son­al­i­ties who have made Beirut and Lebanon the country-light of the Orient, who have shone at all times in its tor­mented his­tory, even if over the decades, and through for lack of cor­rupt and incom­pe­tent dom­i­nant clans, Lebanon is plunged into polit­ical, eco­nomic, finan­cial, social, health, food and even cul­tural chaos. But Lebanon remains a country from which light springs, even from the depths of dark­ness!

Lights of Lebanon will allow us to bear wit­ness to the lumi­nous face of another Lebanon, a melting pot of civ­i­liza­tions and cul­tures scat­tered across the five con­ti­nents. This Lebanon, inventor of the mer­chant navy and the alphabet, factor of age-old links between peo­ples, cre­ator of the sec­ular Nahda, this rebirth of the lan­guage, lit­er­a­ture, polit­ical and social thoughts 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.

The day after the explo­sions of August 4, 2020, we launched with Mr. Jack Lang, President of the IMA, three ini­tia­tives to trans­form the tragedy into pos­i­tive actions, to mark our sol­i­darity with the Lebanese people and more par­tic­u­larly with the world of arts and cul­ture.

Lights of Lebanon is an exhi­bi­tion 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 2021, to shed light on the orig­i­nality, rich­ness and uni­ver­sality of their cre­ations and to pro­mote them in France, in Europe and by the World, to make them appre­ciate at their fair value in the uni­versal his­tory of the Arts.

If this exhi­bi­tion can demon­strate how big this small country is and that it has some­thing spe­cial to offer the world despite all its mis­for­tunes, then we will have won!

Copyright © Galerie Claude Lemand 2012.

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