Magma
Description
Executed in: 2007 - 2008
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 80 x 90 cm
Signed lower left and titled on the back
Provenance
Claude Lemand Gallery, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Location
Beirut
Favourite
Description
Nadia Saikali is a contemporary painter whose works have received numerous awards including the Sursock Museum prize in 1968 and the Carreras competition in London in 1967. Her work has been featured in several exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the Espace Claude Lemand and the Galerie Claude Lemand.
“Nadia’s working habits, the paint-spattered and disordered atmosphere of her studio, could well fit into an ideal scenario of “the bohemian artist at work.” She uses no easel, paints either on the floor or against a wall. Canvasses, large and small, surround her; pots and tubes of paints, brushes knives, rags clutter the floor. She moves through this confusion of materials with the sure swift grace of an antelope, and when she paints, her whole body, the body of a dancer, moves into action; the gesture which is expressed in paint flows from a total arm and torso movement, spontaneous and yet controlled. She says, “I need to move in a rhythmic way, a total way. There has always been this kind of movement in my work.”
Helen Khal on Nadia Saikali.
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