Aref el Rayess – Paintings from 1999
AREF EL RAYESS
Labyrinths
Paintings from 1999
Downtown, December 14, 2023 – February 17, 2024
beirut
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The depicted organisms use prisms and geometric motifs to form cheerful surrealistic cityscapes revealing discernible silhouettes within. Produced in the 1990s and drawing inspiration from the psychedelic era of the 1960s, the paintings on show still possess a contemporary freshness as though they had just dried at the studio.