ARTEEAST Virtual Gallery - Arts and Cultures of the Middle East and its diasporas

About the Virtual Gallery

ArteEast's Virtual Gallery aims to create an on-line presence for emerging as well as established artists operating within and outside the Middle East. An advisory board comprised of international artists and critics will select one artist's body of work, up to 20 images, to be featured every three months on ArteEast's website

Featured Artist: Saloua Raouda Choucair

April 2008


		The Virtual Gallery launches its series of exhibitions exploring the history of modern art in the Middle East with Saloua Raouda Choucair. Born in Beirut in 1916, Raouda Choucair has devoted her career to rethinking art as a modernizing, civilizing, beautifying project and to applying Islamic aesthetics and mathematics to everyday experiences. Her sculptures combine a sense of contemporary global time and scientific discoveries with Sufic insights into human existence. Easily assimilated to abstract geometricism, her work has not been understood at home or abroad through its own terms… Read about Saloua Raouda Choucair View Saloua Raouda Choucair's work

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