Inspirations: AGAINST THE WALL by Abdul Karim Majdal Al-Beik

Not often modern art touches me, this time when I entered the art gallery (Ayyam Gallery, DIFC Dubai) I saw something really powerful. Saying that the power and smartness comes with simplicity seems to be true again. Abdul's works are not having too many colors, all of them of the ground, and contain a few props. They suggest the crimes of human kind without a figure of a human, using only the murder weapons Abdul make a portrait of current Syrian society situation.

Abdul Karim Majdal Al-Beik: The Syrian revolution had a major impact on my paintings, finding myself to be under a reality that forced a tremendous change on my previous works, shifting them towards people's catastrophes and suffering (...). The continuous massacres, the barbaric and indiscriminate killings have forced new and violent vocabularies onto my work, scarecrows, crosses, knives, traps, bullets, and various weapons.

The tragic beauty of his paintings is in their 3D texture, Abdul is using real objects and tight them onto the canvas. They look like rough relics of reality.