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We are pleased to announce the new reader and dialogue program by Hiwar Art Club: “Shaping our Future Communities. This project is organized by the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, EUNIC, Società Dante Alighieri-Amman, Goethe-Institut Jordan and the Institut français de Jordanie.

We are pleased to invite you in the next meet up of Hiwar Art Club to join an open discussion session hosting professor of aesthetics and art criticism, Dr. Mazen Asfour, who will share with us his reading on the art exhibition held at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, titled “Prince Omer Fawzi Effendi”. The exhibition which bears the name of the artist, aims to introduce the artworks of this important artist in the two countries, Jordan and Turkey, and the importance of his works between the past and present. This exhibition comes as part of the programs and activities of Yunus Emre Institute in Amman in cooperation with the Royal Society of Fine Arts, where for the first time the artists works will be on display in Amman.

About the artist: Prince Omer Fawzi was born on October 13, 1914 in Haider Pasha Palace in Istanbul, his father, Prince Muhammad Ziauddin al-Din Effendi, son of Sultan Muhammad Rashad, the last sultans of the Ottoman Empire. Prince Omar Fawzi studied painting in France, and moved to the Bouzar University – Faculty of Fine Arts – in Paris. He was 19 years old at the time. During his stay in the French capital, he made strong friendships with the Spanish artists, Salvador Dali and Picasso, during which he had extensive conversations and discussions about philosophy and art in the famous Café de Flore in Paris. Prince Omar Fawzi has lived a bohemian life, as evidenced in his painting through the surrealistic look and his employing of myths in his artwork.

In the next meetup of “Hiwar Art Club” we are pleased to welcome Lebanese artist Fadia Ahmad for a talk and tour around her exhibition “Beyrouth | Beirut” held at The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts where the exhibition includes a large collection of photographs in a large size devoted to the city of Beirut and its residents the artist has portrayed her since 2003 as an ongoing dialogue with the city of Beirut, which she wanders daily with her camera to photograph in a way that reflects her artistic and human adventures with a city where she finds fragmentation, difference and feeling.

Fadia Ahmad was born in 1975 in Alicante, Spain. She returns to Lebanon in 1991, after a long exile and undertakes studies at IESAV in Beirut. Studying film production and cinematography, she also masters the art of photography moving subsequently to Sub-saharian Africa, where she worked at the family business, she simultaneously pursues her artistic endeavors. She later returns to Lebanon in 2002, and undertakes in the following year the Beyrouth | Beirut series. Fadia Ahmad resorts to photography in her artistic practice. She creates series of portraits and landscapes particularly in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Engaged in humanitarian issues, she releases two series, photography & video, about refugees in Lebanon (Camps; It could be you). The artist currently lives and works between Beirut and Paris.

In the next meetup of “Hiwar Art Club” we are pleased to welcome artist Linda Khoury, director of Darat Al Tasweer for a talk and a walk through the programs and events of the Eighth Image Festival in Amman – 2019 “Wandering”, which includes numerous art exhibitions and events in various galleries and venues in Amman.

Organized by Darat Al Tasweer and in partnership with many local and international institutes The Image Festival Amman aims to gather more professionals together, attract a wider audience and create opportunities for sustainable cultural exchanges. The Festival – single major event dedicated to photography in the region – has notably programmed in the past, locally and internationally renowned photographers from all over the world. In addition to the many exhibitions related to the theme of this year “wandering”, the Festival offers workshops/meetings with professional photography guests.

Born in 1979, In Amman – Jordan, Linda Khoury was fascinated by photography as a child. In 1998 Linda took her first course in black and white photography followed by special studies in 2002 at The Saint Spirit University / Kaslik, in Lebanon. in 2007, with her accumulated experience, Linda establish Darat Al Tasweer. Linda has been teaching photography since 2005, she works as a professional photographer specialized in architecture. She also dedicates time for her passion to the art of documentary photography.

Join us at 6 PM, Saturday 27/4/2019 at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, building #2.

In the next meetup of “Hiwar Art Club” we are pleased to welcome Jordanian artist ِAnees Maani to speak to us about his artistic journey with sculpture and the evolution of forms in nature and in human culture. Maani travels around the world and explores common elements that appear in forms in different environments and with different materials, organic and non-organic, artificial and natural, ancient and modern.

In Jordan, he was exploring the art of the Nabataeans and other ancient Middle Eastern historical periods. He moved to Malaysia and lived there for around three years, where he explored natural forms in rain forests and the world underwater. He later moved to Kuwait for a year, there he was exploring forms that are abstract, organic but more geometrical, inspired by the art of the Nabataeans in Petra and the art of South Arabia and Yemen from the pre-Islamic period.

Anees Maani was born in Jordan in 1973, and had received his degree in Architecture from the Building Academy in Russia in 1994. He has five solo exhibitions in his exhibition record, in addition to his participation in several group exhibitions and art symposiums in and outside of Jordan. Our guest has also represented Jordanian contemporary art in several artist residencies and workshops around the world. His artworks are part of numerous national and international collections at institutions, galleries and art museums.

Join us at 6 PM, Saturday 16/3/2019 at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, building #2.

Jordanian artist and critic Iyad Kanaan worked in his research to monitor the developments of the plastic art movement in Jordan and its impact on the postmodern context in the region and the world as a whole. This lecture will bring us to the conclusion of his latest book, “Transformations of Plastic Art in Jordan”, which was issued in 2014 in the context of revolutions and social and political upheavals in the region. In addition, he will take us to a presentation of examples of his personal experience in art.

Members and friends, you’re invited to join us on a lecture by artist Suje Garcia who will speak to us about the emergence of performance, installation and video art which are often enclosed under the term ‘new media art’

These new forms of artistic expression have been viewed during the past century as avant-garde instances carried by various artists who have been thought to have pushed the limits of culture and aesthetic experience. The lecture will introduce material that has been pulled from several sources and will briefly describe part of the general discourse surrounding topics of new media art. We will begin by imagining not only representations of the figure in art but rather, the figure and the space it occupies as, a potential for art

This will be the first of three public lectures hosted at the National Gallery as part of the activities of ‘Metascape’ workshop, which is now gathering 14 artists, who will work collectively on creating artworks for ‘Metascape’ exhibition.

Members and friends, you’re invited to join us on the second lecture of Metascape discussions in the form of an open dialogue conducted by the artist Suje Garcia.

As new conventions of art practice developed, the artist’s persona and their social encounters became highly fundamental in the development of how we understand new media in art. There, traditional sculpture transforms into social sculpture whose formative contributors will be explored

This will be the second of three public lectures hosted at the National Gallery as part of the activities of “Metascape” workshop, which is now gathering 14 artists, who will work collectively on creating artworks for “Metascape” exhibition.

Members and friends, you are invited to join us for the third lecture of Metascape discussions in the form of an open dialogue. Here we will discuss the work of the artist Suje Garcia and the influences that engage his creative practice

This will be the third and final lecture as part of the activities of ‘MetaScape’ exhibition workshop. Featured are the culmination of 15 artists working collectively to create artwork for the ‘MetaScape’ exhibition.

Our next JNFGA Friends Club meeting will honorably host the prominent artist Ala Younis to speak to us about her art practice.
Younis represented Jordan at the International Art Exhibition in Venice in 2015, in addition to her numerous local and international awards, fellowships and participations.

Ala Younis is a research-based artist and curator, based in Amman. Younis initiates journeys in archives and narratives, and reinterprets collective experiences that have collapsed into personal ones. Through research, she builds collections of objects, images, information, narratives, and notes on why/how people tell their stories. Her practice is based on found material, and on creating materials when they cannot be found or when they do not exist.

As part of Caravan’s events in Amman during the week of the official opening of I AM Exhibition at Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Iraqi artist Dr Hanaa Malallah will give a talk about the role of Art in Empowering women.

Hanaa Malallah (born 1958) is an Iraqi artist and educator living in London.

She was born in Theeqar, Iraq and received a diploma in Graphic Art from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad where she studied with Shakir Hassan Al Said, a BA in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad, a MA in painting and a PhD in the philosophy of painting from the University of Baghdad and a post-graduate certificate in Islamic and Modern Art from SOAS. She has taught at the Institute of Fine Arts and the University of Fine Arts in Baghdad and holds a fellowship at the Chelsea College of Arts.

Her work was included in the show “Iraq’s Past Speaks to the Present” at the British Museum and is also represented in the museum’s permanent collection. Her work is also included in the collections of Jordan’s Museum of Fine Arts in Amman, the Centre for Modern Art in Baghdad, the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha and the Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharja.

Malallah received a prize awarded by the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization.

In the next meeting of the JNGFA Friends Club, we are honored to welcome artist Omar Adnan Al-Abdalat cartoonist and cartoon producer. Al Abdalat has won several local, Arab and international awards. He is active in social networking sites and has more than 150,000 followers.

While working in Kharabish, “3ala Rasi” program, whose characters were created by the artist, won the silver award from YouTube. Additionally, he represented Jordan as a guest speaker at Tedx in Portugal in 2015.

In our next JNGFA Friends Club meeting, we are honored to welcome artist Patte Loper to speak to us about her art practice. Her work has been described as intertwining archictecture, urban planning, activism to create an unholy alliance bertween aesthetics and ideology.

Patte Loper is an American artist who lives and works between New York City and Boston. She is on the faculty at SMFA at Tufts University and her work has been exhibited in the US and internationaly.

We are honored to welcome the founding and eminent artist Muhanna Durra to tell us about his experience with art. Al Durra represented the Jordanian cultural and fine art movement over the years in many events and art exhibitions around the world, in addition to his possession of numerous medals, awards, grants and local and international participations.

Muhanna Durra, a Jordanian diplomat and painter is widely known for being the first to introduce abstract art in Jordan. He founded the Department of Fine Arts at the National Center for Culture and Arts in Amman and the Institute of Fine Arts in 1970. Muhanna Durra was the first Jordanian to establish a technical studio program to teach art students. Now he still offers genrously from his expertise as an art professor at the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University Jordan.

We are honored to welcome the professor of philosophy and critical thought, Dr. George Al-Far, to talk about the role of art from a philosophical perspective. The discussion will focus on the possibilities of art, its status and its importance in the salvation of societies in light of human and ideological problems.

The writer and thinker George Al-Far, who currently works as a faculty member at the University of Jordan, holds a Master’s and Doctorate degree in Theology from the University of Latrun in 1992. He received his Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Claremont in 2005 and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of the Holy Spirit in Lebanon in 2009. He is a member of the Jordan Writers Association, the Jordanian Philosophical Society, and the Arab Philosophical Society.

We will honorably host Jordanian artist and professor Ghassan Abu Laban to speak to us about his journey in art. Our guest has held several solo exhibitions in Jordan, in addition to his participation in many exhibitions and art festivals at the local, regional and international levels. He currently works as a lecturer of drawing and painting at the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Jordan and he is also a member of the Jordanian Plastic Artists Association and the Jordanian Writers Association.

We are honored to welcome Mexican professor and artist Alfia Leiva on a talk about the artistic concepts of post “postmodernism”: “Hypermodernity & Liquid Fear”. She will also speak to us about her latest exhibition, which was held at the Cervantes Institute in Amman under the title “Cyber ​​Evolution” and will continue until 4/1/2018.

Note: The meeting will be in English.

Alfia Leiva has a PhD in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and has held numerous solo and group exhibitions at the national and international levels. In addition, she published a number of articles on the world of sculpture. She works currently as a professor of sculpture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

We are honored to welcome artist Waleed Qaisi on a talk titled “Object against the Object” to tell us about the relationship between abstract reality and reason and how questions are raised in the spirit of the material and its hidden metaphysical effect within the domain of art. This is by addressing his own experience with the creative act in addition to referencing other forms of Arab and international art.

Waleed Qaisi was born in Baghdad in 1963. He studied ceramics at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad and graduated in 1985. He presented his artistic vision through participating in the first youth exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad in 1985. He continued his participation in the collective exhibitions in 1983, declaring his rebellion against form (breaking it and changing its concept) and searching for other areas of disfiguration to create a state of imbalance through form and line. He has participated in many personal and international exhibitions, In addition to his possession of many awards for his achievements in the arts.

Reflections:
From the depths to the skies… from the roots to the branches..

We are honored to welcome artist and historical photograph restoration specialist Kelvin Bown. The artist will offer a talk, question and answer time and following open discussion space within the exhibition space of “Remembrance – a dialogue with the past”.

How can artists convey their deepest callings and intention, beyond words and known structures, into forms? A Native American teaching shares that when humans create, Spirit touches the Earth. How can this sacred understanding be integrated into our work, lives, service to community and creative arts?
The exhibition draws upon the history as a wealth of examples of possibilities of ways of living with less harm to each other or Nature.  The open discussion will also invite ideas and reflections upon this theme.

We are pleased to welcome the Jordanian artist Juman Nimri to speak to us about her artistic career. Juman Nimri was born in Jordan in 1974, and had received her B.A. degree in Fine Arts at Yarmouk University in 1996. She had five solo exhibitions in her exhibition record, in addition to her participation in several group exhibitions in and outside of Jordan.

Our guest has also attended and represented Jordanian contemporary art in several artist residencies, workshops and International exhibitions in different countries. Her artworks are part of numerous international collections at institutions, galleries and museums. Most recently ” The Museum of Contemporary Art , Yinchuan / China” has collected and exhibited works from her paintings and installations. Nimri lives and works in Amman where she established “Studio Bait AlWeibdeh” and gives art courses for kids in addition to organizing annual group exhibitions since 2008 until now.

We are pleased to welcome artists Ibrahim Abu Touq and artist Salaam Sheikh Khader on a talk where our guest speakers will survey the origins, references and applications – ancient and modern – in the usage of Arabic letters and calligraphy in contemporary art. Each of our guests will also discuss their personal practices in using writing and calligraphy in their works of art.

Iraqi artist Salam Al-Sheikh Khedher graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad in 1976.  He also majored in the art of printmaking at the Universities of Madrid and Barcelona in Spain and completed his specialization in the printmaking technique “Silk Screen” at the University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada in 1992. Since then,  he has held numerous solo and group exhibitions at the international level. The artist lives now between the cities of Zurich and Amman.

Artist Ibrahim Abu Touq was born in Amman – Jordan in 1958. He received a diploma in architecture in 1977 and worked in design and art direction for twenty years where he also worked  as an art supervisor and graphic designer. He mastered the classical stage in Arabic calligraphy and then set out for the more contemporary and painterly usage of calligraphy in his art. In addition, he invented the fonts ‘Touq’ and ‘Petra’. Since the beginning of the present century Abu Touq studied philosophy and art criticism independently and devoted himself as a full time artist since 2005, where he has held multiple group and solo exhibitions at the local and international level.

How is public space dealt with and reflected in suppressed movements and emotions? What is the connection between emotion, identity, and performance in public space?

Hiwar Art Club is hosting artists and curators Reem Marji, Joud Al-tamimi and Ameer Masoud to speak to us about their experience in navigating the divergent structures and circuits of social networks, presenting art with new challenges and possibilities