Statement
I think the viewer’s imagination is freer than that of the artist who has “finished” his work; the imagination of viewers is fresh, independent and disinterested. If their sensibilities or curiosity are aroused, they can let themselves be drawn in and wander in their own way through the fabric woven by the artist. Perhaps that’s all art is: a particular dialogue with particular people; a dialogue that’s aimless, gratuitous, sometimes fleeting, like the pleasures of life, and sometimes stronger, like a feeling.
About
Frédéric Husseini graduated from the Ecole d’Architecture de Marseille-Luminy. He worked in France as an architect and entrepreneur before returning to Lebanon in 1991, where he worked in the industrial sector. In 2000 he was appointed Director General of Antiquities at the Ministry of Culture, a post he held until 2010.
His first exhibition, Art Kéo, took place in 2008 in Beirut. It revealed an aspect of his life he had hitherto kept secret, with works produced over several years. His painting reflects the abstract world which he is a part of, juxtaposing substance, transparency, planes, geometry, traces and imprints. He uses a vocabulary of actions that give materiality to the space-time of his paintings, revealing each as a process in movement. His abstract approach uses the same language while exploring new routes.
Frédéric Husseini (b.1957)
- 2008 Art Keo, Crypt of the Saint Joseph University church – Beirut
- 2012 XXXI Salon d’Automne Nicolas Sursock Museum – Beirut
- 2014 Resistances, Gallery 169 – Beirut
- 2016 S.O.S Art, collective, Unesco Palace – Beirut
- 2017 #SerialNumber Gallery 392Rmeil393 – Beirut
- 2019 “October 17, 2019” Collective, Gallerie Janine Rubeiz – Beirut
- 2021 Outbreak-Breakout, Salon d’Art Contemporain Art3f – Paris
- 2021 Outbreak-Breakout, Salon d’Art Contemporain Art3f – Marseille
- 2022 « HIDDEN TREASURES » by Monat Gallery - Madrid
- 2022 Overexposed, Rebirth Beirut and Atelier CM - Beirut
