LAURE GHORAYEB JOINED THE RESISTANCE
As of today, laure ghorayeb began the resistance on www.laureghorayeb.blogspot.com
And who is laure ghorayeb might ask most of my international readers (and a lot of the lebanese one I presume)?
LAURE GHORAYEB attempt for an objective biography
laure ghorayeb is a lebanese visual artist/poet born in 1931. after publishing 2 books of poems, she slowly stop writing to consecrate herself tothe unique style of painting she developed over the years. this style, melting words, drawings and signs together could arguably be described as abstract/poetic comics (it is at least my opinion).
she did many solo exhibits and hundred of collective ones. she is holder of an award of distinction from the paris biennale (1967) and won the first award of the alexandria biennal in the category of drawing (1997). she also participated in the international forum of art "europ’art 2003" in geneva.
during the 15 years of the civil war, laure ghorayeb never stopped drawing. a selection of these drawings, directly connected to the war, were published in a limited edition book titled “témoignage” (testimony) in 1985.
it seems sadly that art cannot fight war. here she is today starting a new series of her marvelously depressing war drawings in a blog titled “witnessing (again)”.
laure ghorayeb is also an art critic for the lebanese newspaper an nahar.
LAURE GHORAYEB a subjective biography
laure ghorayeb is my mom and she’s the greatest.
And who is laure ghorayeb might ask most of my international readers (and a lot of the lebanese one I presume)?
LAURE GHORAYEB attempt for an objective biography
laure ghorayeb is a lebanese visual artist/poet born in 1931. after publishing 2 books of poems, she slowly stop writing to consecrate herself tothe unique style of painting she developed over the years. this style, melting words, drawings and signs together could arguably be described as abstract/poetic comics (it is at least my opinion).
she did many solo exhibits and hundred of collective ones. she is holder of an award of distinction from the paris biennale (1967) and won the first award of the alexandria biennal in the category of drawing (1997). she also participated in the international forum of art "europ’art 2003" in geneva.
during the 15 years of the civil war, laure ghorayeb never stopped drawing. a selection of these drawings, directly connected to the war, were published in a limited edition book titled “témoignage” (testimony) in 1985.
it seems sadly that art cannot fight war. here she is today starting a new series of her marvelously depressing war drawings in a blog titled “witnessing (again)”.
laure ghorayeb is also an art critic for the lebanese newspaper an nahar.
LAURE GHORAYEB a subjective biography
laure ghorayeb is my mom and she’s the greatest.
posted by mazen (old profile) at 03:55
4 Comments:
well jc,
like mother, like son.
now everybody will know where i steal my ideas and "style" from :)
anyways, for helping us, i cannot see something else than keep posting comments and sending the link to evereybody, and especially continuing the writings.
Oh! She's your mom. I did see a resemblance of some sort in the way you both create your art.
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thank you all for visiting mom's blog.
yannink you're somehow right, but i would also add henri michaux, paul kell and the islamic arabesque art (but that's my guess. she actually discovered all these people after beginning to draw as far as i know).
backenas:
there is unfortunately nothing from her work (from the late 50s to present) is present on the web. i wanted to work a website for her, but the job of translating all the stuff written (scribbled somteimes) inside is huge. i hope somebody will help me in this huge task one day (i always add: before she dies i hope).
it is a pity that i cannot show the huge drawing of my living room. this one won the biennal of alexandria in 2000 i think. but ther is enough text inside to fill a book. i never was able to read it all. it is crazy.
anyways, i think that she is a very underrated artist and that she should be exposed in museums all over the world. she tryly has a unique style which is pretty tough to achieve in the second part of the 20th century.
after all this shit ends, i'll try (for real this time) to make her a show in europe or the us. it is a pitty that she is fraking out to be unemployed these days while sh'es a fucking great artist with 45 years of work behind her.
all this is said from a very objective point of view, for once.
thanks also from her part, because she only speaks french and won't be able to answer the comments she receives in english.
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