Broadcast electronic newspaper: Broadcast - Jeddah - Alawiya Al-Shafi’i His Excellency Dr. Iman Ashkar, Cardiology Consultant at King Fahd Hospital and the writer and connoisseur of art on Thursday evening 5 Shaaban 1437 AH opened a gallery (features) in the DamaArt Hall in Jeddah under the auspices of the Saudi Society for Fine Arts (JFST) Jeddah branch represented by its director The artist Nahar Marzouk, with the participation of ten artists, are:

Saleh Al-Shehri, Nazir Yawaz, Nabil Taher, Abdullah Saqr, Reem Al-Diny, Ibrahim Al-Arafi, Ibrahim Al-Khubrani, Jawaher Al-Sayed, Fahd Gharman, Abdulaziz Al-Saeed

The ten experiences of the participating artists are centered on (portraiture) as the main axis of the exhibition and presented in a contemporary modern art template.

About the exhibition, the artist Ibrahim Al-Khubrani started by saying the famous French sculptor (Rodin):

(There is no artwork that express - to this extent - the power of insight and the unity of mind, more than portraiture. This work is equivalent to its value, a complete personal biography, and a deep translation of life).

Therefore, the artists and artists participating in the exhibition presented a number of visual and plastic solutions, visions, techniques and artistic approaches that enabled them to use them to produce and achieve those faces in a contemporary human form, which is printed in the mind of the recipient who has a taste of them.

When asked by the artist Nabil Taher, the curator of the exhibition and the participant in the exhibition with 20 paintings about why the exhibition was called by this name (features), the entire exhibition said human features and about my paintings are also the human face and mask And on what he wanted Nabil Taher to express through this face and masks, he said: The bitter reality that we live in made me draw faces that fade and obscure.

And on the message he sends to society and artists, Taher replied, "I say you have an artist in everything, even your morals."

On the works of the exhibition in general, everyone said that he worked on the human face with different methods, including real, expressive, abstract and surreal, and each of them has a distinctive message. Concerning the exhibitions in which the artist Nabil Taher participated, he said that I participated in many exhibitions, the last of which was the acquisition of Lee''s work in an Italian museum two weeks ago. What does the female mean to the artist Nabil Taher through his paintings? The female said that she is all complement to society, I am not a supporter of the woman at the expense of the man, but the word is true. On our question about the most precious and dearest painting by Nabil Taher, he said: All of them are my sons and I am proud of them. Exalted, he said with a smile, yes, I fear exalted. All my paintings have a special pride. Finally, a word from the artist Nabil Taher, who loves to read to readers and artists. What he will reach for, and God willing, will arrive. He also stated that the number of participating paintings of the ten artists is 120, each of them bearing a special character. God willing, it will be a regular show every 4 months.

As the artist Saleh Al-Shehri added, he said, through what I found of the approval and praise of the attendees and the guests, that it is a very strong integrated exhibition that won the approval of everyone from the great artists and art connoisseurs. The square with its different artistic offering in the future.

Professor Ahmed Hussein, the director of Dama Art Gallery, expressed that the exhibition is very creative and the ten artists are distinguished by these expressive paintings. Fine art is taken from reality, but it is formulated and shaped with artistic touches and is placed in a painting according to the artist''s vision of this reality and from here the artist touches the reality through his vision and his feather, and therefore The exhibition was unique and all attendees praised it.