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Eltiqa in Ramallah
Singing Colors: The new art works in the exhibition titled: "Meeting in Ramallah" manifest themselves cheerfully through a diversity of bright colors and context. The optimism provided in these works comes through an astonishing combination of shape, color, theme and style. The exhibition embodies different experiences ranging between abstraction and expressionism, and despite the great dissimilarity between the two approaches, there is an implied and tacit accord in the spirit of the works by the five artists. Dina Matar, provides a particular vision in her contemporary works, somewhat decorative in their approach. Matar uses the inherited female relationship to place, without resorting to the classical components of form. Her women and houses look more stylish and more youthful, and this is what brings out her work away from symbolic expressionism or pure decorative renditions. Abdul Raouf Alajuri is close in style to German Expressionism. In building his compositions, he combines powerful lines with hot yellow colors. Although this combination normally emits the feeling of fragility in rendering the human body, with certain optimism, Alajuri overlooks that, thus allowing himself to destroy the stereotypical connotations of pain and suffering. Ra’ed Issa is represented in this exhibition through his still-life compositions. His work is saturated with color and reflection. His bold colors make his works closer in style to Fauvism. Muhammad Hawajri presents as usual, new experimentations in his new work, focusing this time on animals as a theme, his techniques reflect a certain fantasy of style. Eventually this vigorous energy and search may lead him in the future to produce some visual epics in the form of murals. Mohamed Abou-Sal is an artist who simplifies his work. He moves towards instinct and wit in his brush work and color, as he approaches the themes of the culture of place and the daily and ordinary life. In “Meeting in Ramallah”, the works of this group come as a break in the prevailing visual art production of the past. They reflect the humanitarian daily diversity and the difference in the visual representations between man, nature, and animals, specially in the colors which sing aloud in strong rhythm. Munther Jawabreh
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