Allers - Retours

A dialogue between short poetic texts by Noël Fattal with acrylic and ink illustrations by Frédéric Husseini accompanied by a third voice; that of Rita Husseini.

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Statement

I’m an architect who paints and a painter who is aware of the visual necessities of creativity. But beyond those two roles, painting for me is primarily a selfish pleasure. I interact with the medium, the materials and myself. It’s a serious game and a silent conversation, given rhythm by the sound of the tools. It’s a moment of anxiety and relaxation all at once, a detachment from the real world, a journey, a considered diversion. You shed all constraints and models and let yourself be carried away by the painting and the way it is evolving before your eyes. Once the moment of creation is gone, the pleasure is over, ended, frozen at a stage considered definitive, but frozen all the same. That’s why I try to formalise the process itself as far as possible, without any theatrical Actionism. This is the main subject of my painting.

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.
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About

Frédéric Husseini graduated from the École 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.

He began exhibiting in 2008 and has since shown in Lebanon, France and Spain. His painting juxtaposes substance, transparency, planes, geometry, traces and imprints, a vocabulary of actions that gives materiality to the space-time of each canvas, revealing it as a process in movement. His abstract work is rooted in themes of resistance, cultural heritage and the layered memory of Beirut's urban landscape. He was featured in The Guardian in 2023.

Frédéric Husseini (b.1957)

Press

When Painting as Process and Poetry as Echo, Frédéric Husseini’s Outlook at Rebirth Beirut

When Painting as Process and Poetry as Echo, Frédéric Husseini’s Outlook at Rebirth Beirut

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The Guardian - ‘I want to be part of the rebirth’: the artists bringing creation out of Beirut’s chaos

The Guardian - ‘I want to be part of the rebirth’: the artists bringing creation out of Beirut’s chaos

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L'Agenda Culturel - Allers Retours

L'Agenda Culturel - Allers Retours

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Ici Beyrouth - «Allers-Retours»: une exposition à trois voies

Ici Beyrouth - «Allers-Retours»: une exposition à trois voies

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Jazz à Bey

Visualising the text of René Borruey, "Jazz à Bey", around the work of Frédéric Husseini. This video was screened during the RESISTANCES exhibition at 'Gallery 169' Saifi Village, Beirut.

 

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