Collection of artists’ kites
The collection of artists’ kites.
The collection of kites by Lebanese artists – Artémed-Liban – was created in Lebanon in June 1999, on an idea by Serge Séroff, co-founder of the first Lebanese kite-flying club, “Ciel & Vent” (Sky & Wind), despite the deteriorating security situation in the country at the time.
It brings together works by visual artists who chose to express themselves on this medium, made to float in the air at the end of a string.
Most of the artists – a majority of them women, aged between 25 and 45 – live, work and exhibit in Lebanon.
They were offered four traditional shapes: the Rectangle, the Eddy (diamond), the Hexagon (a Lebanese tradition) and the Rokaku (of Japanese origin).
The responses were highly varied: figurative, abstract, expressionist, writing, painting, collage… Dreamlike evocations, responses to the vicissitudes of the situation in Lebanon, humour and poetry are all there, expressing a diversity of viewpoints.
The collection has been shown in Lebanon several times at the International Kite Festival of Lebanon since 1999, and in France at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris in 2003.
It has been featured in articles in the press in Lebanon and in France.
Participating artists:
Khalil Allaik, Ginane Aoun, Georges Bassil, Flavia Codsi, Fulvio Codsi, Maya El Hage, Mouzayen El Khalil, Olivier Gredzinsky Houssam Hatoum, Mona Jabbour, Charles Khoury, Leïla Kazma, Rafik Majzoub, Leïla Makdessi, Ziad Maroun, Ning Min Fan, Isis Nassar, Marwan Rechmaoui, Jeanine Sabbagh, Nada Sehnaoui, Sibylle Tamer, Mona Trad-Dabagi, Karine Wehbé, Nada Yammine.
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