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Artist Statement:
The key of my happiness in life is when a final artwork turns every minor thing around into a symbol of beauty. I really glory of my relationship with my own artwork that I share each sense of life with it. My aspiration about my fine art is when I follow every pathetic line and space of the body of the work, and found the whole work plays my own secret symphony that flows with emotional spirit to feed my soul desires. A final artwork is a life visual record of all my sensibilities at a time of creating this art piece.
When I work with oil colors I feel the colors stimulating deep with my feelings that I don't feel like I work with alien material, I just work with colors unconsciously expressing deeply my self. I don’t plan before I start a new piece, and don’t like to follow discipline logic. A birth of a new painting is when the pureness of first colors released on a fresh white canvas in a very childish way, these colors gesticulate the motions of brushes on the new canvas and evoke the form of the work. I use ...
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Artist Reviews:
Al Tahmazi transcends this lyrical abstraction and tends towards a more conceptual abstraction, refusing the arbitrary separation between figuration and abstraction. For him, space is more than just a simple alchemy of pigments, it is literally a concept.
Asaad Arabi
Researcher in the aesthetics of Arab and Islamic art
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Collections:
Bahrain National Museum, Manama, Bahrain
National Art Museum, Amman, Jordan
Kuwaiti Divan, Kuwait, Kuwait
Ministry of culture and arts, Amman, Jordan
Gora Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Private collection in Bahrain, Saudia Arabia, Kuwait, UK, and Canada....
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Exhibitions for Khalid Altahmazi:
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003 - Gora Gallery, Montreal, Bahrain.
2000 - Arts Center (Bahrain National Museum), Manama, Bahrain.
1997 - Bahrain Arts Society Gallery, Manama, Bahrain.
1991 - Bahrain Arts Society Gallery, Manama, Bahrain.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 2nd Islamic Art Biennial, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
The Annual National Arts Exhibition, Bahrain National Museum, Manama, Bahrain
2000 1st Islamic Art Biennial, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
1999 Bahrain Contemporary Art, Pacific Cultural Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
1999 Sharjah International Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
1999 Bahrain Contemporary Art Exhibition, Arabic World Institute, Paris, France
1998 Selection of contemporary Arab Arts, Al-Riwaq Gallery, Manama, Bahrain
1997 Kuwait National Art Exhibition, Kuwait, Kuwait
1996 4th Art Exhibition of GCC's Artist, Kuwait, Kuwait
1995 Cairo International Biennial, Cairo, Egypt
1994 Bahrain Cultural Week (Arts Exhibition), Abu dhabi, UAE
1993 Arabic Cultural Festival (Arts Exhibition), Beirut, Lebanon
1992 8th Arts Exhibition for GCC's youth artists, Kuwait, Kuwait
1992 2nd Arts Exhibition of GCC's Artists, Doha, Qatar
1992 Bahrain Arts Society Exhibition in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
1991 7th Arts Exhibition of GCC's youth Artists, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
1990 6th Arts Exhibition of GCC's youth Artists, Abu dhabi, UAE
1989 5th Arts Exhibition of GCC's youth Artists, Doha, Qatar
1989 Bank of Housing Gallery, Amman - Jordan
1989 1st Muscat International Biennial, Muscat, Oman
1987 Spanish Cultural Council, Amman, Jordan
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