Artwork by Syrian artist, Osama Nassar will be installed at Peruvian restaurant Coya for an exhibition in January. The show, called Splashes, features brightly coloured canvases that depict some abstract and some everyday scenes from his personal life. They are intended to be hopeful in the face of times of trouble and are also supposed to evoke an emotional state of mind.
“The real source which I build paintings from are signs that I cannot control, that roam in my mind from the first splash of paint until the end. In this empty endless vacuum, characters sit waiting silently, hopefully and patiently. These characters sometimes smile for an unknown reason. Despite their rigid looks, there’s an internal movement that passes with that colourful smile. This is the smile that carries the expressions and memoires of the people I’ve met in my life and who left their impressions in one way or another,” says Nassar.
* Splashes opens on January 16 and runs for six weeks.
