Flemish Artists Project, Jan Verbruggen, Walt Van Beek and Korneel Devillé
Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture
14-20 September, 2011
Jan Verbruggen, Walt Van Beek and Korneel Deville are three young artists living and working in Brussels. At the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture they will give a lecture on their own work and contemporary art in general.
During their stay, from 14 to 20 September, at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture they will explore the island using kite aerial photography and prepare a larger scale project focusing on Flemish contemporary art during the 2012 festival.
The Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture is pleased to welcome Palestinian artist Mohammed Musallam who will present a series of Lectures on Palestinian Art at the Center between the 18th and 24th of July, 2011. Mr Musallam will also present a Personal Exhibition of his paintings, as well as a video-art display.
About the artist
Mohammed Musallam was born in Gaza in 1974 after his family had been dislocated from the historic Palestine as a consequent of the 1948 war. He holds a Bachelor degree in Painting from Al Najah University and a Masters degree in Painting from Helwan University, Cairo. He currently resides in Gaza and works there as a lecturer of “Painting and the History of Palestinian Arts” at the College of Arts, Al Aqsa University.
From his first steps as a university student he became greatly influenced by the abstract art processes and approaches.
In his Art, he focuses on portraying a range of humanistic issues, which go beyond the limitations imposed by any prevailing time-related matters, which may be oppressive and persistent simultaneously. At the same time, he concentrates on conveying the notion of the preservation of our humaneness amid the harshness of our environment as one of the most important reasons for our existence.
