The Collection Kinda
Perspective on Contemporary Arab art
It is a private collection that is published here. This collection is exemplary. It is entirely devoted to contemporary painting in the Arab world. The great diversity of the works brought together here reflect both the free subjectivity and the commitment of its patron who, through his innumerable travels, whether in Arab countries, Europe, or America, has sought out artists and their works.
Over the years, the collection has been enhanced, it has acquired new dimensions. Its patron has never stopped inquiring, listening and looking, extending his field of investigation. His very perspective has become honed. This passion, the reasons behind which became clearer as it became fiercer, led to the creation of the Kinda Foundation. The name chosen is a reference to the tribe of the patron's ancestors, which played a decisive role in the political and cultural history of the Arabian Peninsula in the 5th and 6th centuries AD…
… This was the tribe to which the famous Imru al-Kays belonged, the greatest poet of pre-Islamic Arabia. It was under the impetus of the latter and of the Kinda that the Arabs were united for a century and that Arabic became, in a more unified form, the language of the entire community.
This was the first step in the unification that reached its height with the advent of Islam. I feel that a little of this history is echoed in the vocation of this Foundation, which aims to promote the pictorial language of the Arab artists of our time, showing both its specificity and its universal reach. Or, in other words, the reference to the cultural role of the Kinda is felt in the very choice of these works, which, for the most part, participate in a fruitful dialogue between the past that carries them and the future towards which they aspire.
This tribute to the past is not in contradiction with the desire to show that one is a contemporary of a given period, receptive to its tastes and its transformations.
by Brahim Alaoui, extract
PUBLISHED ARTISTS :
Shafiq Abboud (born in 1926 in Bikfaya, Lebanon, lives and works in France)
Youssef Ahmed (born in 1955 in Doha, Qatar, lives and works in Qatar)
Suad Al Attar (born in 1942 in Bagdad, Iraq, lives and works in London)
Zaman Al Jasim (born in 1971 in Al-Khobar, Sudi Arabia, lives and works in Dharan)
Fateh Al-Moudarres (born in 1922 in Alep, Syria, deceased in 1999)
Rafa Al-Nasiri (born in 1940 in Tekrit, Iraq, lives and works in Bahrain)
Khaled Al Owais (born in 1963 in Riyad, Saudi Arabia, lives and works in Riyad)
Shakir Hassan Al Saïd (born in 1925 in Samawa, Iraq, lives and works in Bagdad)
Kakafian Ardash (born in 1940 in Mossoul, Iraq, deceased in 2000 in Paris)
Dia Azzawi (born in 1939 in Bagdad, Iraq, lives and works in London)
Georges Bahgory (born in 1932 in Louxor, Egypt, vlives and works in Paris)
Tayseer Barakat (born in 1959 in Gaza, Palestina, lives and works in Ramallah)
Farid Belkahia (born in 1934 in Marrakech, Marocco, lives and works in Marrakech)
Fouad Bellamine (born in 1950 in Fes, Morocco, lives and works in Rabat)
Abdallah Benanteur (born in 1931 in Mostaganem, Algeria, lives and works in Paris)
Mahdjoub Ben Bella (born in 1946 in Maghnia, Algeria, lives and works in Tourcoing, France)
Mahi Binebine (born in 1959 in Marrakech, Morocco, lives and works in Paris)
Ahmed Cherkaoui (born in 1934 in Boujad, Morocco, deceased in 1967 in Casablanca)
Ziad Dalloul (born in 1953 in Soueida, Syria, lives and works in Paris)
Saliba Douaihy (born in 1912 in Ehden, Lebanon, deceased in 1944 in New York)
Rafik El Kamel (born in 1944 in Tunis, Tunisia, lives and works in Tunis)
Adel El Siwi (born in 1952 in, Béheyra, Egypt, lives and works in Cairo)
Balqees Fakhro (born in 1950 in Manama, Bahrain, lives and works in Bahrain)
Ismail Fattah (born in 1934 in Bassorah, Iraq, lives and works in Bagdad)?
Paul Guiragossian (born in 1926 in Jerusalem, deceased in 1993 in Beyrouth)
Farid Haddad (born in 1945 in Beyrouth, Lebanon, lives and works in United States)
Mahmoud Hammad (born in 1923 in Damas, Syria, deceased in 1988)
Adam Henein (born in 1929 in Cairo, Egypt, lives and works between Paris and Cairo)
Mohamed Kacimi (born in 1942 in Meknes, Morocco, deceased in 1999)
Mohammed Omar Khalil (born in 1936 in Burni, Sudan, lives and works in New York)
Karim Rassan Mansour (born in 1960 in Bagdad, Iraq, lives and works in Bagdad)
Marwan (born in 1934 in Damas, Syria, lives and works in Berlin)
Fakher Mohamed (born in 1954 in Babylone, Iraq, vlives and works in Bagdad)
Ahmad Moualla (born in 1958 in Damas, Syria, lives and works in Damas)
Mohamed Muhraddin (born in 1938 in Bassorah, Iraq, lives and works in Bagdad)
Ali Mukawwas (born in 1955 in Latakieh, Syria, lives and works in Latakieh)
Effat Nagui (born in 1912 in Alexandria, Egypt, deceased in 1994 in Egypt)
Nizar Sabour (born in 1958 in Latakieh, Syria, lives and works in Syrie)
Abderrazak Sahli (born in 1941 in Hammamet, Tunisia, lives and works in Hammamet)
Faisal Samra (born in 1955 in Damman, Saudi Arabia, lives and works in Bahrain)
Abdulrahim Sharif (born in 1954 in Manama, Bahrain, lives and works in Bahrain)
Chaïbia Tallal (born in 1929 in Chtouka, Morocco,lives and works in Casablanca)
Gouider Triki (born in 1949 in Chaïbine, Tunisia, lives and works in Tunisie)
Ramses Younan (born in 1913 in Minieh, Egypt, deceased in 1966 in Cairo)
Elias Zayat (born in 1935 in Damas, Syria, lives and works in Syria)
Fahrelnissa Zeid (born in 1901 in Istanbul, Turkey, deceased in 1991 in Amman)
Editors Jean Loup Pivin, Brahim Alaoui
65 artists published from Lebanon, Qatar, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Palestina, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Bahrain, Sudan, Turkey
Essays by Nabil Naoum, Brahim Alaoui and Nicole de Pontcharra
80 colors photos
Hardcover book of 128 pages 24×32 cm
Published in 2002
In French and English
ISBN 2 909571 564 - EAN 978 2 909571 560
Few pages from the book 'The collection kinda' :
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