ALLSPOTS ☎: Homage to Issam El-Said by Zaina El Said

Homage to Issam El-Said

"Zaina El Said aspires to lend a modern appeal to her uncle's works.. "

Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Time: 6:30pm

Location: The Orfali Gallery Amman

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In 2011, Zaina set out to produce an innovative collection of artistic designs and paintings, inspired by her late distinguished uncle, Issam El-Said.

Having been raised in a home liberally adorned by Issam El-Said's work, Zaina always knew that her intrigue by such creative expression would eventually prompt a continuation of his legacy, a part deux to an artistic journey which had ended too soon.

With beauty derived from eastern spirituality and Mesopotamian culture, her work displays both recreated and original works inspired by Issam El-Said's art. Through this Homage, Zaina aspires to lend a modern appeal to her uncle's works, and to revive his notable art with various accented materials and mixed media, resulting with a celebration of colors and textures, including plexiglass, wood, leather, and wall panels to name a few.

Well Wishers Issam El-Said - London 1969

ISSAM El-SAID

Born in Baghdad in 1938, El-Said held a BA in Architecture from Corpus Christi College - Cambridge (1961), he also studied art at Hammersmith College of Art and Design - London (1962-4), and he was preparing for a PhD on the Methodology of Geometric Proportioning in Islamic Architecture at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne at the time of his death; however, key extracts from his thesis were published by the Issam El-Said Foundation in a book entitled Islamic Art and Architecture: The System of Geometric Design,1993.

El-Said's artworks are in private and public collections worldwide including the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad; National Museum of Modern Art, Amman.

El-Said lived in exile in London until his death in 1988.

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