Mantek Al Tayr Exhibition at Agial Art Gallery

The Agial Art Gallery is hosting a solo exhibition by Mireille Kassar called “Mantek Al Tayr”, taken from her “Landscape, Vision” group of works. Born in 1963 Lebanon, Paris-based artist Kassar developed a rich and varied body of work that includes paintings, drawings, sound, films, writings and installations.

Her recent paintings belong to her “Landscapes” series, a group of work on paper exploring the notion of landscape as a dimension, rather than a pictorial subject. Here, the landscape is treated as an expanded state of consciousness, often beyond or beneath language. It can be perceived as a readjustment of the sensorial experience, shifted from any discursive thought, hence “recognized” as an archetype of sorts, a primal recognition sensation.