X RAY
By RAFIK MAJZOUB
 
10 October to 31 October 2012

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 Rafik Majzoub landed like a tornado on the Beirut art scene in the mid 1990s, creating images that reflected the intellectual and political climate of then. Since then, Majzoub’s work continues to question and peel back the social veneers of society and himself, none more so than in his new works, titled ‘X RAY’.

The raw images and deliberate artless style cut through any façade that may exist, showing the imperfection of life through these 11 direct and frontal portraits. Violent brushstrokes, a limited palette and neutral backgrounds are indicative of his style, and there is an immediacy in the work which reveals what is beneath the veneer.

Majzoub’s work is always direct and truthful, peering into the psyche of the human spirit from one minute to the next, attempting to show the hidden reality and truth of existence.

'The Face.... Morning after morning looking at a blank page, trying to get a snap shot of the moment again and again, as if each day will be different. The face is the key to the inner you. I'll use the blank space over and over as a mirror to me, to I and to you, the other. This is happening now.'


 

 

Previous Exhibitions

SINA ATA - 'MAMNOO3 FORBIDDEN '

MIKE V. DERDERIAN - 'CIRQUE DU HABALEENO '

GHASSAN GHAIB WITH SCULPTURES BY AHMED AL BAHRANI - 'HANINE (NOSTALGIA) '

CHARLOTTA SPARRE - 'ABCD – A DREAM OF FOUR CITIES '

MOHAMMED AL SHAMMAREY - 'WASAT AL BALAD / DOWNTOWN'

TARIQ DAJANI - 'SAQR'

AMMAR KHAMMASH - 'FOSSILS OF TIME & LIGHT'

KARIN MAYER & AHMED AL KHALIDI - 'URBAN EXCHANGE'

BADER MAHASNEH - 'EXPOSURES'

GHADEER SAEED - 'MEMORIES OF LOVE & WAR'

SALEH ABU SHINDI - 'VOCABULARY OF LINES AND COLOUR'

MONA SAUDI - 'SONG FOR THE EQUINOX'

BADER MAHASNEH - 'SCULPTING THE WATER'

TARIQ DAJANI -  'ABOVE WADI RUM'

HAKIM JAMAIN -  '30 DAYS IN LUXOR'

ABORIGINAL ART - ANCIENT ABSTRACTIONS

3 DIMENSIONS, 3 JORDANIAN ARTISTS

SHEREEN AUDI - 'EXPRESSIONS OF A FREE SOUL'

FLOODED LONDON – FIVE IMAGES OF THE FUTURE

Contemporary Australian Indigenous Prints and Paintings

ASIL Photographs of Arabian Horses by Tariq Dajani at Zara Centre Gallery

Didgeridoo … da..da