ABDULLAH MURAD, RECENT PAINTINGS.
Abdullah MURAD. The little freedom and hope that is left in us.
Within my overall artistic experience and as an abstract painter, I have never given much importance to the subject as I was convinced that it was useless to overload the canvas with ideas of which it could not bear the weight. I always considered painting like a language that is silently formulated, that is listened with the eyes and that is observed with an interior vision.
As an artist, I cherish anything that contributes to life’s constant vibrancy and radiancy. However, our country is suffering from the terrible and difficult present circumstances and we have all been affected by it. My recent paintings of 2015 are but a cry, reacting to the destructive tendency of certain humans, whatever their social motives may be. My paintings shout back to anything that might pose a threat to our human nature.
Art has always been an inherent call for freedom and an escape from a world that is yet again and always has been consumed by disturbance, brutality, chaos and injustice. Staying optimistic and keeping hope are the only ways for us to live and to pursue the paths of our destinies.
Damascus, 7th December 2015
Translated from French by Valérie Didier Hess.
Abdullah Murad is born in Homs (Syrie) in 1944. He lives and works in Damascus.
