The museum was also hosting an exhibition of pictures by Abdulnasser Gharem which we really like. As well as being an artist he is a Lieutenant - Colonel in the Saudi army. It is difficult to properly describe these pictures. Firstly they are big, 6or 7 feet. secondly the have a texture running through them raised against the surface. Much of this appears to be arabic text although some is just dots. Hidden in this and printed backwards so it is difficult to read are quotes in english, so in "Camouflage" (above) we were able to decipher quote from several famous people eg Machiavelli about war and for example "ISIS is the enemy. Without uniforms we cannot tell who is the enemy"
I love this combination of scale and minute detail you get in modern arabic art art, like the artist at the British Museum who made pictures of rolled coloured paper but on each strip unseen when completed was a handwritten quote from the Q'ran. I bet the arabic on Gharem's pictures include Q'ranic quotes.
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