Untitled 05
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About this artwork
In this monumental painting (150 × 250 cm), Ahmad MOUALLA presents an
intricate cosmic tableau in which times, symbols, and beings interweave
within a visual structure that refuses immediate disclosure, revealing itself
instead layer by layer. Blue dominates not merely as a color, but as a
psychological and intellectual state: the blue of memory and mourning, the
suspended distance between dream and catastrophe, where figures appear
caught between emergence and disappearance.
Bodies and faces are arranged in a mosaic-like composition with no fixed
center, bringing together historical, mythological, everyday, and shadowy
presences within a fragmented narrative that dismantles heroic logic and linear
storytelling. There is no single protagonist here, but rather a parallel, collective
presence reflecting a world that has lost its inner coherence. In the foreground,
black silhouettes advance like a silent audience resembling the viewer,
drawing them into the scene and transforming them from a neutral observer
into an active agent of interpretation.
Animals, female bodies, and ritualistic or theatrical gestures coexist as shards
from an archive burdened with myth, violence, and memory – not as complete
scenes, but as narrative remnants open to imagination. Formally, MOUALLA
relies on wiped, eroded color fields over which violently rendered bodies and
loose, unraveling lines suggest the disintegration of matter, mirroring the
disintegration of the world itself. The brush and the palette knife become
instruments of confrontation, meant to open the wound rather than to heal it.
The work offers neither answers nor a direct discourse; instead, it constructs an
ethical space in which humanity confronts its fractured image – as a being
besieged by history, symbol, and the body. Here, Ahmad MOUALLA
establishes the painting as an open text, where poetry and violence, memory
and dream, beauty and catastrophe coexist in a demanding experience that
resists easy reading and rewards sustained contemplation, leaving behind an
indelible visual trace
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About the Artist
Ahmad Moualla (b. 1958, Banyas, Syria) is one of the most influential figures in contemporary Syrian art. A painter, graphic designer, and professor, he studied at Damascus University and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Known for his large-scale, theatrical canvases that blend expressive figures with Arabic calligraphy, Moualla’s work explores themes of identity, memory, and power with striking emotional intensity.
His paintings have been exhibited widely across Europe, the Middle East, and North America, and are part of prestigious institutional and private collections. Moualla’s significance extends to the global art market, with his works featured in major auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s. As a pioneer who introduced performance into Syrian visual art, he continues to shape the region’s cultural landscape with vision and depth.
