Zawyeh Gallery is pleased to invite you to the opening of the solo exhibition "Deconstructing the Shape" by Zohdy Qadry.
Opening: 6 May 2017 from 7.00 - 9.30 pm
Exhibition continues until 31 May 2017.
Zohdy Qadry’s superlative progression can be perceived in his artistic life: from realism to the current abstract chaos of intertwined lines that are challenging untangle. Geometry has played an influential role in Qadry’s art for over a decade: shapes, lines, spaces that express unfathomable rationality that offer the comfort of proportions and symmetry.
Deconstructing the Shape pictures the artist’s purely geometrical pieces that evolve into a chaos that cannot yet abandon the logic of geometry and shapes, which are merged into the former. The shape is being shattered, vanished into the space or the surroundings; it is being broken apart, fading away and disappearing. His work is an abstraction from realism that does not disregard reality, believing that art remains another suggestion of reality.
Qadry brings back in his latest works the idea of the “Non-Subject”, a notion that is biased towards the freedom of art and its absolute commitment to morality in a world that does not control this absent language; testing experimental tools that flow between the abstraction of the body and the rigidness of geometry as a product of power between shapes and colors.
His work expresses logic of formation, featuring shapes, forms and volumes that build artistic scenes before a meaning or interpretation has to be given to them.
“As a painter, I strive to formulate numerous questions – and answers – as part of the format of painting, rather than cling to artistic or social laws and values intended to dominate me and dictate my fate.”
Qadry refuses to adhere to the reality without the ambitions and false considerations that lead art to the space of consumption and absurdity.
“I wanted to insist on my freedom as a human being, and specifically as an artist. The yearning for an inner world is an aspiration for truth and justice.”
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Zohdy Qadry was born in 1972 in Nahf, a village in the Galilee and studied art in St. Petersburg, Russia. Since returning home in 2004, he has worked prolifically, exploring personal emotions and experiences, often speaking about the feelings of numbness and abhorrence that engulfs him while witnessing the tragic situation of the Palestinian people. These emotions are best depicted in his large, abstract expressionist canvasses, which have become his trademark. The juxtaposition of forms and styles dominate his work as he continues to seek explanations beyond the norm.
Qadry has exhibited widely both at home and internationally, including in Dubai, USA and France. Deconstructing the Shape is his first solo exhibition in Ramallah.
