Silex Millénaire (Millennium Flint, 1983)
Description
Size: 150 x 150 cm; 59 x 59 in
Medium: Oil on Japanese paper laid down on canvas
Signed, titled, and dated
Provenance
Private Collection, France (acquired directly from the artist).
This artwork is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Location
Paris, France
Description
Nadia Saikali is a Lebanese painter. She was born in 1936 and graduated from Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (Alba) before joining the Grande Chaumière and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. After a stay in Glasgow, she returned to Beirut, where she regularly exhibited her work. In the midst of the Lebanese war, she settled in Paris in 1979. In 2022, Nadia Saikali was part of the exhibition Beirut and the Golden Sixties: A Manifesto of Fragility curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath at Gropius Bau, Berlin and the Lyon Biennale.
Silex Millénaire (Millennial Flint) comprises Japanese paper laid on canvas. Though it looks like a diptych or a window with two casements, it is actually made on a single sheet. Nadia Saikali was profoundly affected by the war that was devastating Lebanon at that time. She produced a body of works to express her wounds, painting on canvas and laying the Japanese paper over.
Silex Millénaire is the only piece of the series to be composed as a diptych. It is a very rare and delicate achievement in Sakiali’s œuvre and in the corpus of modern paintings inspired by the Lebanese war.
Exhibitions
Nadia Saikali, Espaces intemporels. Paintings. Paris, 2016.
Literature
Catalogue of the exhibition Nadia Saikali - "Espaces intemporels. Paintings", Paris, 2016.
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