on going

Drawings are lying in front of me
Black on white
Their vibrations sting my attention
They look familiar
Saturating
Contemplating on colour
Them forming space and density
There are these lines
Intimate lines, mutually shared
Common narration
Biased
Based on experience
Be it imaginative
 

Evidence without value

Reflected in press pics
Circulating the net
Accurately recording seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years
Longitudes and latitudes
Track pads
Places
Evidences

All in all

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For both

Drawings and press pics
No nails and pins needed
do (not) own them to share them
 

Spaces and bodies
Bodies in spaces
Spaces in bodies
Bodies of thoughts
Bodies of pain
The lines are intimate
Shared mutually
Memory
 

pain

The drawings, etchings and lithography of German painter, printmaker and sculptor Käthe Kollwitz, 1867-1945, depict life suffering in all its shades. She conveys strong emotions. Her artistic strategies and expertise reflect a powerful and lively expression as well as a profound study and understanding of people’s pains and politics .
In the mid thirties she completed her last major series of lithographs :: Woman Welcoming Death, Death with Girl in Lap, Death Reaches for a Group of Children, Death Struggles with a Woman, Death on the Highway, Death as a Friend, Death in the Water, The Call of Death.
Shortly after she and her husband were visited by the Gestapo in July 1936, who threatened her with arrest and deportation to a Nazi concentration camp; they resolved to commit suicide if such a prospect became inevitable.
 

A little later, 1937, the French painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in responds to the German and Italian bombing of the Basque village Guernica in Northern Spain earlier on in April the same year. This painting became quickly THE charismatic icon of an anti-war position:

Type............Oil on canvas
Dimensions......349 cm × 776 cm (137.4 in × 305.5 in)
Location........Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

In July 1937 a large mural was exhibited at the Paris International Exposition at the World’s Fair for the Spanish display.

 

At the United Nations

A tapestry copy of Picasso’s Guernica was displayed on the wall of the United Nations Building in New York City at the entrance to the Security Council room from 1985 to 2009. It was commissioned in 1955 by Nelson Rockefeller, since Picasso refused to sell him the original. The tapestry was placed on loan to the United Nations by the Rockefeller estate in 1985. The tapestry is less monochromatic than the original and uses several shades of brown. On 5th February 2003 a blue curtain was put up to cover the image Guernica when Colin Powell and other US diplomats argued for war in Iraq at a press conference in the very building.
(no further knowledge on the whereabouts of the original copy tapestry.)

 

“……… experiences of mixed feelings, fear rebellion freedom.
Since the conflict in Syria began to grow more and more painful, I express my thoughts, feelings, and criticism of the current violence with illustrations. The language of expression amalgamates my background in theatre, drama, animation and fine arts. …” says Sulafa Hijazi from Damascus. “I believe that, among all that is happening, art will always be a powerful and peaceful weapon."

- an energetic statement against a protracted processes.
The movement as such generates hope and high recognition values. It carries timelessness. Moments that do not end. This is on going. An ongoing experiment on life. On breathing. On public health.
 

It is not not there if you do not look at it. If you do not paint it, talk and sing about it. If you see it with your own eyes, you do not know if you see the truth. You dream about it. If it was true what you saw, with your own eyes, documenting randomly, activating senses. Your nose remembers, bears smells, bringing this very moment alive again, just when you settle in, become attuned. You paint and write and read and listen. Banging the head on a piece of wall. Splits of seconds halt. Caption reads: destruction plays it’s logic. Caption reads: Victory means to see you suffer. Caption reads: 

illustrations by Sulafa Hijazi, 2011-2013, Damascus, Syria
text by Rayelle Niemann, March 2013 

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