Artist Mahmoud Amhaz Exhibits at Ajial Gallery
By Ahmad Bazzoun
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