Hamad & Ali - Reminiscing Kuwait II

The second installment of the Reminiscing Kuwait series launched in December 2007 will be held at Sultan Gallery on April 19th, 2011.

The collection features mixed media paintings with the subject Kuwait and Arabic culture in the 1950’s and 1960’s as well as video installations. Hamad & Ali’s aim is to bring back memories of the past and conserve them for the future generations. The art work presented by Hamad & Ali invites the viewer to experience history and Arabic traditions from a playful and yet very detailed point of view. Using the history as a path to the future the artists’ work involved many contemporary and traditional painting techniques combined with digital imagery and photography.

The Kuwaiti artist Hamad Al Saab and the German Iraqi artist Ali Sultan started their collaboration in 2006 focusing on digital artwork on canvas using iris print and silkscreen. From there, the work evolved and included calligraphy, acrylics, silk paint, apoxy, Swarovski crystals, stencils and different transfer techniques. Hamad & Ali’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and in collective art shows in Doha (Qatar) and the UAE and is been collected by many art appreciators in the Middle East as well as in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, the United States and South America.

Further this year Hamad & Ali’s eighth solo exhibition will be held at Lahd Gallery in London on May 26th, 2011.