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Al-Mansouria Foundation sponsors artistic experiences because it believes they are part of a nation’s spiritual nourishment. Every genuine artistic experience motivates both the artist and viewer to test their lasting beliefs and preconceived ideas, to cultivate and refine them by exposing them to discussion within a refutable and reconstructable modern construct. Art remains our most idealistic way to search for, and realize, the self within. Through its renewed and regenerated styles, art looks into exploring appearances and paradigms, thereby raising more questions in its quest for identity.
By supporting artists endowed with creative tools and visions, Al-Mansouria seeks to open up the artist’s horizon, freeing his space and encouraging him to evolve beyond limits and difficulties. Our endeavor is to provide the artist with the most appropriate and fertile environment to measure his experience against reality and its interference with it, along with his questioning of that reality.
Art, as viewed and propounded by Al Mansouria, is a tool for dealing with reality, a revolution against the monotonous vision of the surrounding environment. Freedom with its eternal values lies behind renewed vision. It is within such regenerative vision that human beings are revived, rooted and propelled.
The Al-Mansouria Foundation presents the experience of the artist Zaman Jassim, which originates from a vision of an inherited past that is deeply rooted in authenticity and joyfully tinted with the fringes of modernity, harmoniously mingling with the abstractions of our modern times. The artist holds to his contemporary, innovative, artistic expression without compromising his loyalty to his aspirations, nor departing from his deepest motivations and authentic roots. Zaman starts his journey with a carpet, a tent and a camel saddle, which are spaces woven with human toil and sweat, bearing the distinctive marks of a colorful and intellectual history, which parallels the desert’s archives. The artist leaves those vast dimensions to join the desert with its openness on the absolute concealed in his color, in its brightness, shades, subtitle, vividness and abstraction.