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Salah Saouli was born in Beirut, Lebanon. He studied painting and sculpture at the Hochschule der Künste (University of Arts) Berlin. After having graduated in 1987, he continued his studies in Caracas, Venezuela and has been awarded a number of awards, grants, and artist residencies in Spain, Germany, United Arab Emirates, and Japan and has exhibited in Berlin, Lithuania, Australia, The Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, and Sweden. Saouli currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. |
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Forest Blues This artwork is made of Blue colored branches (about 700 pieces) which are hung from the branches of two large trees with linen cords. They are hung on the same level and around the trunk of each tree in this specific place in the forest. The main idea of this sculpture is motivated from the Abstract Painter Mondrian, who went to the abstraction throw the nature. The main idea began with re-constructing the abstract paintings series ”Pier and Ocean” 1915 by Piet Mondrian in which he painted landscapes with a big tree, whose form and colors he reduced until he reached a new level of form which was very abstract. These trees paintings were the earlier construction of his masterwork “Pier and Ocean”. By re-forming this abstract work into three-dimensional sculptures, we bring its forms back to their origin, which is the nature. This procedure is an act of celebrating the nature in various senses, and a kind of Homage of Piet Mondrian. In creating his installation, Saouli made big changes, where he followed his point of view in celebrating the nature of my own way. This project is also a kind of sound-installation, it is a very reduced way of hearing the impulse of the nature with different ringing and in many tones; each tree is carrying different branches of varying thicknesses, and some metal pipes. An observer could hear the concert of nature in many tones, due the movement of wind and the thickness of the branches and the pipes: the branches register this movement and transform it to sounds and noises of non-continues rhythm of the nature. As Saouli arrived at the I-Park, observing and walking in the Park/forest, he began to make a lot of changes of this project: he began to think of the harmony and the full beauty of this place, and thinking of various interpretations of the metaphorical paradise. Where is Paradise located? Dealing with this question is also an artistic challenge to give the shape and the space a longing for perfection. |
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