KHALED ALKANI
KEEN RECORDER AND ACCOMPLISHED ARTIST
Khaled al-Khani (born 17 February 1975 in Hama, Syria) is a Syrian painter, currently living in Paris. Following the Syrian revolt, he has made manifest his anti-regime stance.
Described by French art critic Christian Noorbergen “Khaled Alkhani’s searing abstraction contrasts with the figurative appearance of a head. It dominates the earth-ridden melee and is deprived of the ordinary vehicle of skin. Focal point of the painting, it has lived through every disaster”.
‘Intellectual Concerns’, a new solo show by Khaled Alkani. The 42 year old Syrian painter will present a series of paintings which have an unscathed expressionist force, as described by French art critic Christian Noorbergen “Khaled Alkhani’s searing abstraction contrasts with the figurative appearance of a head. It dominates the earth-ridden melee and is deprived of the ordinary vehicle of skin. Focal point of the painting, it has lived through every disaster”.
About Khaled Alkani
Syrian, exiled to Paris in 2011 after having taken part in the first anti-regime protests, Khaled Alkhani’s destiny has been marked by political violence (his father was killed during the 1982 Hama massacre). Violence on the edge of his skin and paintings has been impossible to contain ever since the start of his career as a painter in Damas (in 2000), calling out against constrained liberties and repressed speech. “Keen recorder and accomplished artist, Khaled Alkhani never illustrates. A bracing oeuvre running on two gears: the impact of the moment under the outpouring of gestures, of colours and of instincts, and of heavy emotional sediments, which leave traces with time… The dislocated and wounded body, victim of a mortifying world, through reactionary exorcism, rejects that which dislocates and kills. Khaled Alkhani’s contemporary expressionism conjures bad memories”, concludes Christian Noorbergen.
An artist employing a variety of supports for his work, including oil painting, and mural painting. The human as an individual or in the crowd is at the heart of the work of Al-Khani. Women are also an important subject in his paintings.
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