By Fatima Abdullah
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