Art Exhibition By Dima Al Malakeh : “Mental Symptoms”
Venue: Pullman Dubai, Mall of Emirates
Date: 11th January 2011 – 17th January 2011
Dima Al Malakeh is a Dubai based Syrian artist who has unique abstract style making her paintings a very colourful vivid imagery of human beings. The exhibition titled Mental Symptoms was hosted by Free dome Media at the Pullman Hotel, Dubai (Jan.11 – Jan.17) came and a huge success. The artist chose symbolism to show various states of her mind and moods.
In person, she is an ever-smiling PR professional; and one would have had to double-check to confirm that some paintings were indeed from her brush. Besides dealing with positive emotions like Love, Trust and Happiness, Ms Dima also deals with negative feelings like Pain, Treason, Anger, Insanity, Envy, Sadness, etc., She had a different style of choosing the colours and fonts that made her prominent in her field. She used fiery reds, yellows and blacks appropriately to depict anxiety. She had also perceptively utilised texts to heighten the effect of the pictures. Some human figures were scrawled into the works and the figures had echoes of African and South Pacific totem art, and also cave art. Their spare, thorn-like presence seemed wholly in-place.
She was Born in Damascus in 1974, Dima Al Malakeh grew up in the oldest city in the world with its enchanting jasmine trees, gardens and narrow allies, and from a family with a long intellectual diverse and controversial history. Great music, gifted artists and all the beauty and diversity in this ancient city influenced and helped shape Dima’s imaginational and artistic flair.
After losing her father, her mentor and her friend, Dima manifested her anger, her love and her teenage years on the walls of her room ruining the wall paper but preserving her sanity. In college she travelled the beautiful world of literature with her brushes and started creating the imaginary worlds of her dreams, sketching the wavy black lines of freedom using symbols, icons and words but always with a twist at the end.
After attending an intensive drawing course at Centre Adham Ismail of Visual Arts and graduating from Damascus University, Faculty of Arts, English Literature in 2000, Dima embarked on a career as an artist with an approach that challenges her imagination as colors slowly returned to her paintings this time with the feelings of a mature woman exploring the universe around her. The paintings depicted are not only about her inner feelings, but her experiences in life, the major events and the small details. She draws for love, heart breaks, success and failure, life and death; she simply paints life as she sees it.
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