Category: Press & Media

Lebanese artist Mahmoud Amhaz presents his exhibition Timeless, offering a selection of works produced over recent years alongside earlier pieces that reveal the continuity of his artistic language across decades.

The exhibition allows viewers to read a long visual experience that has extended through time while preserving its internal coherence and ongoing spirit of experimentation.

Amhaz’s recent works do not appear detached from his earlier practice. Rather, they form part of a continuous path in which the artist develops his visual concerns within the same broader framework that has occupied him for years.

The paintings are built upon a structured abstract language based on internal order, repetition, accumulation, intersecting surfaces, and vertical and horizontal lines that shape the overall composition.

Color carries an expressive and sensory role, yet it does not dominate the image through direct emotional display. Instead, it appears as a quiet presence and as a desire for harmony beyond sharp contrast.

Memory tends toward abstraction in these works, while traces of the human figure and lived experience occasionally emerge within the surface before dissolving again into painterly space.

The relationship between masses and voids, between density and openness, creates balance within the pictorial field. This gives the works a contemplative rhythm and invites multiple readings.

Some paintings contain signals that allude to human presence without literal depiction. Forms appear as suggestions rather than fixed identities, opening the work to interpretation.

Through this path, the artist acquires a distinctive visual knowledge not through repeating himself, but through persistence, daily practice, and continued engagement with painting.

The exhibition confirms Mahmoud Amhaz as an artist whose language has remained alive and capable of renewal, proving that creative work can continue with depth and vitality across time.

Publication: Asharq Al-Awsat

The artist Mahmoud Amhaz presents a visual experience in which color appears as a living force, capable of generating beauty through harmony, contrast, and movement. His paintings do not rely on direct representation; rather, they build their presence through abstraction, emotional resonance, and the internal relationships of forms and tones.

In this exhibition, color becomes more than a surface element. It transforms into an expressive energy that shapes the structure of the painting and guides the viewer’s eye through layers of rhythm and balance. The artist handles color with sensitivity and confidence, allowing it to create both tension and serenity within the same space.

Amhaz’s works reveal a deep awareness of the modern visual language while maintaining a personal identity rooted in contemplation and intuition. His paintings do not imitate nature literally, but they preserve its spirit through atmosphere, light, and organic movement.

The surfaces of the works are rich with texture. Brushstrokes, accumulations of pigment, and subtle transitions create a tactile presence that gives each canvas depth and vitality. These textures are not decorative additions; they are essential to the emotional and visual meaning of the work.

The exhibition demonstrates the artist’s ability to unite discipline with freedom. Behind the spontaneity of gesture lies a carefully considered structure, and behind the apparent simplicity lies a refined system of relationships between line, mass, space, and color.

At times, the paintings suggest landscapes, horizons, walls, or natural elements, yet they never become descriptive images. Instead, they remain open fields of perception in which the viewer is invited to discover personal meanings and emotional associations.

Amhaz succeeds in creating a dialogue between the visible and the hidden, between matter and sensation, between silence and movement. This dialogue gives the works their poetic character and allows them to communicate beyond literal language.

The chromatic richness of the exhibition confirms Mahmoud Amhaz as an artist who understands color not merely as decoration, but as a creative force capable of generating beauty, emotion, and thought.

His paintings affirm that art can remain both modern and deeply human, intellectual and sensuous, structured and free.

Publication: Al-Liwaa Al-Thaqafi (Cultural Supplement of Al-Liwaa)

Mahmoud Amhaz opens today an exhibition at Ajial Gallery featuring works that reflect a dense and expressive visual language. The exhibition presents paintings that continue his experimental path in abstraction and chromatic composition.

His latest works reveal a sustained engagement with texture, movement, and emotional resonance. The surface of the painting becomes a field of tension where color, gesture, and structure interact in layered relationships.

The white spaces within the composition do not function as emptiness, but as active intervals that intensify the surrounding forms and direct the viewer’s gaze. Through this balance, the works acquire both clarity and ambiguity.

Amhaz employs rapid strokes, accumulations of marks, and shifting tonal values. These elements create visual rhythms that move between calm and agitation, presence and disappearance, density and openness.

The artist’s language remains connected to the human and natural world, yet without direct description. Hints of figures, landscapes, and inner states appear only to dissolve back into abstraction.

His paintings invite contemplation rather than immediate explanation. They offer multiple readings and emotional responses, making each encounter with the work a renewed visual experience.

The exhibition confirms Mahmoud Amhaz’s ongoing search for a personal modern language rooted in sensitivity, discipline, and expressive freedom.

These new paintings appear more concentrated and intense, revealing an artist who continues to refine his vision while expanding the possibilities of abstract expression.

Publication: Al-Safir

Date: Tuesday, 19 March 1996

Writer: Ahmad Bazzoun

In 52 acrylic paintings on paper and canvas, in small and medium sizes, Mahmoud Amhaz presents in his latest exhibition at Darat Al-Mada a distinguished group of works shaped by the worlds of simplification, harmony, the beauty of Arabic letters and ornamentation, color experiments, and rich textural suggestions.

Mahmoud Amhaz raises more than one question about the way acrylic material can be used to create feeling and style. He does so in order to embody his vision of abstraction with an Eastern sensibility. He is among the artists who seek experimentation, innovation, and visual transformations that continuously renew themselves, moving away from imitation and direct repetition.

In his new works, painted between 1999 and 2003, Amhaz departs from the traditional principles of abstraction through the movement of variations, waves, repetition, intersections, and shifting spaces. Ancient traces of letters and script-like forms appear in his paintings, arranged across surfaces and open spaces through rhythmic lines that suggest movement and transition in their successive formations. This creates a shared visual scene in which colors gain transparency through their relationship between surface and depth, and through that he attempts to move beyond outward form toward inner meaning.

The linear and painterly structures are connected to color fields and their harmony. These relate to rhythms of light and the spaces of the surface, creating what may be called a new coherence within the language of color and form.

The painting approaches a different spatial atmosphere through the placement of vertical lines that shape the forms in their alertness, while horizontal lines reveal degrees of calm and extension.

Amhaz’s paintings evoke a visual world rich with traces, inscriptions, and signs that grow and dissolve in forms, shadows, and absences. Through this, horizontal and vertical axes contribute to building the architecture of empty space and its surfaces, charged with tension, proportion, spaciousness, and continuity of movement.

His paintings combine harmony and reflection in order to intensify visual effect, revealing forms immersed in light while their outer and inner energies continue to resonate.