Plastic art workshop combines two different generations in Syria’s Qamishli
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Qamishli, Syria’s northeastern city, is hosting nowadays a plastic art workshop gathering plastic artists from two different generations.
The events of the training workshop was kicked off yesterday Monday and will continue till November 15. The event is sponsored by Rojava Intellectual Union. Senior visual artists, who have been drawing for decades, are opposite to juniors participating in the workshop.
Rahimo, an expatriate artist who is on a visit to Qamishli, is observing his portrait ahead of coloring it.
Three decades after his immigration, Rahimo is now able for the first time to draw a portrait in his homeland. Few meters away, other visual artists are doing the same.
“In Belgium, I needed music and my memories so that I could paint and focus. But here, both are available,” Rahimo told North Press.
Rahimo declined uncovering what he is going to draw. He just said “The painting and I are on dispute. Let’s wait and see what will come out”. He then colored the edge of his portrait with red.
Rojava Intellectual Union said the aim of the workshop is to try creating interaction between the old and young generations and bring their portraits closer to each other.
Firaz Sabbagh, a 20-year-old visual artist, is drawing a red-dressed girl with her hair falling over her shoulders. The painting symbolizes the future, he said.
Sabbagh said the workshop is an opportunity to meet the eldest artists in order to shed light on the young generations’ art works.
Every participant will have two visual art works to exhibit in the workshop.
While the visitors are wandering and chatting about art, Mousa Mousa, a 50-year-old participant, is coloring his painting. The black color dominates the painting. It rims the red and yellow colors used in the middle of the painting.
“The black symbolizes the fire that has been encircling us for ten years. Nothing but fire. No one has good intentions for us. But we still hold to hope,” Mousa told North Press.