Kevork Mourad – After Spring
May 13 - June 21, 2012
 

Since last year, Kevork’s black and whites have become vehicles for exploring his nightmares, which with the current climate are often influenced by Goya's war series.

Kevork’s lines started moving on their own to show him the horrors that humans can do to each other. The whiteness of the paper was being swept away to reveal the blackness and cruelty of humanity. Patterns are common in his work, and he likes to show his heritage through patterns. When the Armenians came to Syria, they did not bring anything except what they knew, and the patterns they brought were in textiles, jewelry and rugs.

In Syria, the architecture and design are fascinating for what they say about the history of its people, and Kevork finds beautiful patterns there. Growing up in Aleppo, he saw the influence that the various cultures had on each other, and the patterns most interesting to him are those created by the mosaic of different people living in the same place.

 
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