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Giving back to Nature
We, at Opera Gallery Beirut, are proud to announce our new partnership with the association Animals Lebanon for our exhibition Giving Back to Nature. This show intends to illustrate the force of nature and wildlife through art and to show the importance of animals not only in Nature but also in Art.
Animals have crossed the border between humanity and the primitive world. Men have always tried to understand the nature of animals and the look they have upon them has deeply changed. Cavemen鈥檚 drawings, recreating animals鈥� images brought them closer to their own world. The mysterious paintings on the walls of the Lascaux鈥檚 caves bear witness to some of the first efforts of humanity to control and evoke the place of animals.
Animals have aesthetic, graphic and symbolic values. They stand as mere objects helping us to understand the connection between the human nature and the primitive world. Contemporary art reflects a constant idealistic representation of animals, purely examining naturalistic approaches. Artists try to reuse the animal figure, impose upon them their own ideas and emotions, so that we might better understand the connection between humanity and animality, all the while bringing attention to the moral and ethical duties that mankind has towards them.
We hope this exhibition will give you the will to persevere with the fight of Animals Lebanon via your everyday life actions, in order to end the abuse of animals, the zoos鈥� brutalisation of them, and to awaken a real change in our culture. It is often said that art delivers messages; it changes the way people act or think. Giving back to nature is a first step towards these changes, showing the beauty of these animals and of our country.
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We, at Opera Gallery Beirut, are proud to announce our new partnership with the association Animals Lebanon for our exhibition Giving Back to Nature. This show intends to illustrate the force of nature and wildlife through art and to show the importance of animals not only in Nature but also in Art.
Animals have crossed the border between humanity and the primitive world. Men have always tried to understand the nature of animals and the look they have upon them has deeply changed. Cavemen鈥檚 drawings, recreating animals鈥� images brought them closer to their own world. The mysterious paintings on the walls of the Lascaux鈥檚 caves bear witness to some of the first efforts of humanity to control and evoke the place of animals.
Animals have aesthetic, graphic and symbolic values. They stand as mere objects helping us to understand the connection between the human nature and the primitive world. Contemporary art reflects a constant idealistic representation of animals, purely examining naturalistic approaches. Artists try to reuse the animal figure, impose upon them their own ideas and emotions, so that we might better understand the connection between humanity and animality, all the while bringing attention to the moral and ethical duties that mankind has towards them.
We hope this exhibition will give you the will to persevere with the fight of Animals Lebanon via your everyday life actions, in order to end the abuse of animals, the zoos鈥� brutalisation of them, and to awaken a real change in our culture. It is often said that art delivers messages; it changes the way people act or think. Giving back to nature is a first step towards these changes, showing the beauty of these animals and of our country.
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