Art & Culture
Meet Artist Natiq Al Alousi and discover “Away from Reality” Exhibit
“I have produced many statues, monuments and murals in important sites and palaces inside and outside Iraq, one of which is the flag of the Mother of Battles (Om Al Maarek) in the Martyr Monument in Baghdad. I served as the Director of the Ministry of Culture’s bronze foundry in Iraq as well as of the Presidential Court and headed the Department of sculpture at the Institute of Culture and Folklore.”“My background: I belong to an artistic environment that goes back in old eras to more than 6000 years represented in the art of Mesopotamia – the land between two rivers – (Babylonian, Sumerian and Assyrian). Each time I study and watch the symbols of these eras, I find myself slipping to my studio to extract from my unconscious my materials and practice my passion in art as a ritual ceremony which is a stimulator from which I depict my continuous emotions.”“About my Art: My artistic style is manifested in my very delicately sculpted art focusing on capturing the essence of beauty of graceful slender bodies in motion to flow and reveal the intrinsic expressionist energy of their soft and rapid movements and emotions. Most of the transient details of these bodies have been mindfully hidden and minimalized; however they retain a sensitive expressive energy that emits gleams of beautiful meaningful emotions reflecting deep passionate unspoken dialogue between a lover and a loved one, another dialogue between a lover and his eternal dream and one more between the myself and my work attempting to make the hard substance compliant to discover where beauty resides in these lively moves of the slender bodies.”
About the “Away from Reality” Exhibit
Natiq Al Alousi shared, “My interest in the relationship between a man and a woman, along with my lifetime work on that dialogue and aesthetic feelings that are formed by the suave human body movement, in addition to the reduction of details that I find ineffective in the artistic expression that I look for, all that affected my method, which I find committed to specific artistic vision, despite my utilizing of a variety of material and substance. Consequently, comes the idea behind my current exhibition. It is the evolution of the creative content. Definitely, there were aesthetic effects that imposed on some of the sculptures.”
“The human being, with his everlasting struggle with good and evil, and his ongoing search for the meaning of life and immortality, was a gateway for a new project that can bear different interpretations. Maybe the epic of Gilgamesh, from Mesopotamia, is part of the solution that I find compatible with some of my mystifying questions.”
“It is Gilgamesh, the King of Uruk, who realized everything. He is the wise being who knows everything. He, who examined life and benefited from its lessons, unraveled secrets and revealed buried mysteries. He is the descendant of Uruk, with the elegant and sublime appearance and ramming ox. He is the forceful, the son of Ninsun. Gilgamesh, full of divinity. He is the one who aspired to achieve immortality.”
“Although this myth is considered an in-depth study of my new sculpting style, I borrow some of its details in my new exhibition, to form the beginning of an experiment that may become the foundation for more productive projects.”
Glade Gallery
Glade Gallery, located at 2000 Woodlands Parkway in The Woodlands and also home to the Glade Arts Foundation, highlights the “diversity within contemporary art and fuels the synergy that describes the creative exchanges between American and European art today.” The gallery hosts exhibits by local and international contemporary artists alongside masters presenting their works of both traditional paintings, lithographs, drawings, fine art photography, interactive art, new media art and sculptures.
Learn more about Natiq Al Alousi and the “Away from Reality” Exhibit at Natiq Al Alousi at GladeGallery.com.
