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18 September 2015

KEVORK MOURAD . Art Paris Art Fair 2015 - Mucem 2015 .

Claude Lemand, Kevork Mourad in France .

For the first time in France, the Claude Lemand Gallery is holding a solo show of his paintings in January-February and a group show in the Grand Palais, Art Paris Art Fair 2015. The Mucem of Marseille is inviting for the second time the artist and his wife Anaïs to show their famous performances from 4 to 11 April 2015.

An Armenian born in Syria, Kevork Mourad draws highly from the dual influences of his heritage. A sense of history is embedded in his line. Inspired by the calligraphic concept of putting much thought into limited line, Mourad’s works deal with a first layer of gesture laden with meaning - referencing Arabic calligraphy, Armenian motifs and miniatures. The second layer is the subject matter at hand, usually referencing political and social issues of the present. The artist sees his work as a mirror in time: reflecting a version of the present, refracting images of the past, revealing to the observer what he or she seeks within it, in a dance of meaning that spirals through time.

The dynamic movement in Mourad’s compositions reflects his strong interest in the relationship between the visual arts and music. A significant part of his artistic practice involves the technique of spontaneous painting, in which he creates work during live performances with musicians. Mourad showcases this engagement with musicality through his dancing figures on canvas. With his technique of spontaneous painting, where he shares the stage with musicians - a collaboration in which art and music develop in counterpoint to each other - he has worked with many world class musicians. He is a member, as a visual artist, of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble. He has performed at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Chelsea Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Chess Festival of Mexico City, The Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art in Yerevan, Le Festival du Monde Arabe in Montreal, the Stillwater Festival, the Nara Museum in Japan, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rubin Museum of Art, Harvard University, Lincoln Center Atrium, the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Central Park’s Summerstage with the Silk Road Ensemble and Bobby McFerrin.

In Mourad’s work there is a sense of history embedded in line. Inspired by the concept in Asian art of putting much thought into limited line, Mourad’s works deal with a first layer of gestures that are laden with meaning. This first layer references Arabic calligraphy, Armenian motifs and miniatures, the few gestures of his line supported by a long history. This first layer serves as a guide into the second layer, which is the subject matter at hand, also very much influenced by the ancient history of the artist’s heritage. In confronting a work that is directly inspired by the ancient cultures that came before it, the observer can feel the long line of history supporting the present, the tumultuous present taking inspiration and hope from the past.

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13 March 2022

ALGERIA MY LOVE. Artists of the Algerian fraternity, 1953-2021 - Exhibition from March 18 to July 31, 2022.

24 June 2020

I.M.A.gination - CHRISTIE’S PARIS - Online Charity sale. From June 24 to July 16, 2020.

12 June 2020

THE ARTIST MAHJOUB BEN BELLA PASSED AWAY IN JUNE 11, 2020.

8 April 2020

The Circle of Friends of GUERMAZ pays tribute to Pierre REY.

4 March 2020

PHOTOS + VIDEOS FROM THE LEMAND DONATION.

16 February 2020

ZINEB SEDIRA WILL REPRESENT FRANCE AT THE VENICE BIENNALE 2021.

30 August 2019

VLADIMIR VELICKOVIC PASSED AWAY ON AUGUST 28, 2019.

10 August 2019

KAMAL BOULLATA (Jerusalem, 1942 - Berlin, 2019) buried in his homeland JERUSALEM.

28 January 2019

DIA AL-AZZAWI, Bilâd al-Sawâd (Black Land) - LE MONDE, 28.01.2019

22 October 2018

A PASSION TO SHARE. The CLAUDE & FRANCE LEMAND DONATION of 1300 artworks to the Institut du monde arabe MUSEUM, Paris.

29 August 2018

NUIT BLANCHE 2018 - YOUSSEF ABDELKE - A DONATION TO FIGHT DEATH IN SYRIA. - Institut du monde arabe, Museum. - 6 OCTOBER 2018.

25 May 2018

ETEL ADNAN - Exhibition from June 15, to October 7, 2018. - ZENTRUM PAUL KLEE, Bern, Switzeland.

16 May 2018

ABDALLAH BENANTEUR, THE SONG OF THE EARTH. Retrospective-Tribute. Exhibition from June 9, to September 9, 2018.

1 March 2018

AZZAWI, SABRA AND SHATILA. Exhibition from April 11 to September 16. 2018. - Musée. Institut du Monde arabe, Paris.

4 February 2018

PICASSO, GUERNICA. - Musée national Picasso-Paris.

22 January 2018

PORTRAIT OF THE-NON-EXISTENT-BIRD. Maison des Arts, ANTONY.

14 January 2018

ABDALLAH BENANTEUR PASSED AWAY ON 31 DECEMBER 2017.

12 June 2017

TONDO INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION - City of Issoudun Museum - France.

7 August 2016

DIA AL-AZZAWI TO LAUNCH RETROSPECTIVE IN DOHA.

24 February 2016

SEGUÍ, PAINTING IN MIRRORS. Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch, ISSOUDUN. From 27 February to 22 May 2016.

30 September 2015

MAHJOUB BEN BELLA, WORKS ON PAPER. La Piscine Museum, Roubaix, France. 24 OCTOBER 2015 - 31 JANUARY 2016

24 September 2015

FATIMA EL-HAJJ, THE SONG OF THE EARTH.

18 September 2015

MANABU KOCHI . Art Paris Art Fair 2015 .

18 September 2015

KEVORK MOURAD . Art Paris Art Fair 2015 - Mucem 2015 .

18 September 2015

ABDALLAH BENANTEUR . Art Dubai Modern 2015 - Booth M7 .

27 February 2015

SHAFIC ABBOUD . The Armory Show 2015 + Art Dubai Modern 2015.

25 February 2015

THE AL-AZZAWI EPIC . New York. The Armory Show 2015.

7 November 2014

ETEL ADNAN, Writing Mountains. Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Retrospective, 15 Nov. 2014 - 08 March 2015.

1 September 2014

GERD LANGE DESIGN. In the Context of Serial production. 1962-2007.

3 July 2014

ISSOUDUN - Musée de l’Hospice Saint Roch - Conversation between Claude Lemand and Tom Laurent - Art Absolument - July 2014

21 May 2014

City of ISSOUDUN - PORTRAIT OF THE NON-EXISTENT-BIRD - Exhibition from 22 May to 31 August 2014 .

8 May 2014

ETEL ADNAN AND THE ARAB MODERNITY .

19 March 2014

YOUSSEF ABDELKE - 2 EXHIBITIONS IN PARIS : GRAND PALAIS + GALERIE CLAUDE LEMAND

9 March 2014

TONDO INTERNATIONAL - ART BAHRAIN - ART PARIS ART FAIR 2014

10 January 2014

SHAFIC ABBOUD, THE PROPHET .

28 October 2013

ABDALLAH BENANTEUR. The River and the Volcano. Text by Claude Lemand.

16 October 2013

BENANTEUR, Paintings. LA GAZETTE DROUOT. Exhibitions by Lydia Harambourg.

5 March 2013

Grand Palais - Art Paris Art Fair - C21 Galerie Claude Lemand - 27 mars - 1er avril 2013. Dia Al-Azzawi, Bilad al-Sawad & other works, 1978-2011.

15 November 2012

Claude Lemand. A Passion to share.

20 May 2011

Spring in Paris, next year in Beirut.

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