{"id":35295,"date":"2014-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/directory\/khaled-takreti-lol-at-ayyam-gallery"},"modified":"2014-08-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:00:00","slug":"khaled-takreti-lol-at-ayyam-gallery","status":"publish","type":"directory","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/directory\/khaled-takreti-lol-at-ayyam-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Khaled Takreti: LOL at Ayyam Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ayyam Gallery Beirut is pleased to announce LOL, the solo show of leading Syrian artist Khaled Takreti, opening on September 11. Featuring a new series of works, the exhibition will highlight a recent development in Takreti\u2019s painting style as he enters the second phase of his twenty-year oeuvre. Expanding his focus on sociocultural themes, which emerged in his previous body of work, Complete Freedom (2013), his latest paintings employ a new postmodern aesthetic, one that evokes the desensitized, image-saturated age of today. <\/p>\n<p>  Deconstructing the formal properties of painting, Takreti sources imagery from a variety of media then creates collaged stencils as outlines for his compositions. Figures and objects are paired with minimal reference to tangible spaces and painted with photographic precision, a breakdown of illusionism that is visible in his earlier works but further reduced in order to allude to the artifice of advertising, social media, and popular culture. Through such formalism, Takreti blurs the line between fine art and mass media and depicts modern life as a tableau of the absurd riddled with anxiety. <\/p>\n<p>  The exhibition will be accompanied by the launch of Takreti, a bilingual monograph, featuring a survey of the artist\u2019s work from 2002 until 2014. Complementing this comprehensive catalogue are essays by novelist, art critic, and editor Pascal Amel and Ayyam Gallery Artistic Director Maymanah Farhat.<\/p>\n<p>  <b>For more information<\/b><br \/>  01.374.450 or 01.374.451<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayyam Gallery Beirut is pleased to announce LOL, the solo show of leading Syrian artist Khaled Takreti, opening on September 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":541560,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-35295","directory","type-directory","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Khaled Takreti: LOL at Ayyam Gallery<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ayyam Gallery Beirut is pleased to announce LOL, the solo show of leading Syrian artist Khaled Takreti, opening on September 11.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/directory\/khaled-takreti-lol-at-ayyam-gallery\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Khaled Takreti: LOL at Ayyam Gallery &#187; Beirut.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ayyam Gallery Beirut is pleased to announce LOL, the solo show of leading Syrian artist Khaled Takreti, opening on September 11.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/directory\/khaled-takreti-lol-at-ayyam-gallery\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Beirut.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beirutcityguide\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/35295.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"418\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@beirutcityguide\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/directory\\\/khaled-takreti-lol-at-ayyam-gallery\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/directory\\\/khaled-takreti-lol-at-ayyam-gallery\\\/\",\"name\":\"Khaled Takreti: LOL at Ayyam Gallery\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/directory\\\/khaled-takreti-lol-at-ayyam-gallery\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/directory\\\/khaled-takreti-lol-at-ayyam-gallery\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/35295.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-08-15T00:00:00+00:00\",\"description\":\"Ayyam Gallery Beirut is pleased to announce LOL, the solo show of leading Syrian artist Khaled Takreti, opening on September 11.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/directory\\\/khaled-takreti-lol-at-ayyam-gallery\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/directory\\\/khaled-takreti-lol-at-ayyam-gallery\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/directory\\\/khaled-takreti-lol-at-ayyam-gallery\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/35295.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/35295.png\",\"width\":630,\"height\":418},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/directory\\\/khaled-takreti-lol-at-ayyam-gallery\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Directories\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/directory\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Khaled Takreti: LOL at Ayyam Gallery\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/\",\"name\":\"Beirut.com\",\"description\":\"Beirut.com is your insider guide to Lebanon, with the best in food, culture, neighborhoods, and everything new. 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