The works of Enzo Cucchi and Gilbert Halaby are presented in dialogue in the exhibition "Echoes of Existence" at the National Museum of Beirut. (Credit: Christopher Akiki)
Although its name is a symbol of Lebanon, the cedar covers fewer forests than the pine, which is at the heart of the exhibition "Echoes of Existence." The stone pine populates a vast part of the Mediterranean basin and serves as a common thread for the region's largely endangered nature. It is this tree that creates a dialogue, at the Nouhad Souhaid Pavilion of the National Museum of Beirut, between the works of Italian artist Enzo Cucchi and Lebanese-Italian artist Gilbert Halaby. This project was born from a series of fortunate coincidences, where memory, landscape, art history and environmental concern intersect. Lebanese art Through deconstructed photography, Tarek Haddad explores his relationship to memory and home It all begins in Rome. Valeria Bianconi, first secretary at the Italian Embassy in Lebanon,...
Although its name is a symbol of Lebanon, the cedar covers fewer forests than the pine, which is at the heart of the exhibition "Echoes of Existence." The stone pine populates a vast part of the Mediterranean basin and serves as a common thread for the region's largely endangered nature. It is this tree that creates a dialogue, at the Nouhad Souhaid Pavilion of the National Museum of Beirut, between the works of Italian artist Enzo Cucchi and Lebanese-Italian artist Gilbert Halaby. This project was born from a series of fortunate coincidences, where memory, landscape, art history and environmental concern intersect. Lebanese art Through deconstructed photography, Tarek Haddad explores his relationship to memory and home It all begins in Rome. Valeria Bianconi, first secretary at the Italian Embassy in Lebanon,...
