The "Art in the Face of Corona" initiative organized by the Jordanian artist Lama Hourani seeks to contribute to supporting the recent and noble efforts of official and public institutions, to prevent the effects of the corona epidemic on society, by promoting the values of cooperation and solidarity and providing moral and material support through art .
| Among the paintings of the Art Initiative against Corona, signed by Jordanian artist Amal Hindawi (Al-Jazeera) |
Art for the Victory of Humanity,
and about this initiative, the director of "Galleries of Visions 32 for the Arts", the artist, Souad Issawi, says that "the artist is an essential and important component in society whose role cannot be ignored, neither in daily life, nor in major crises. Artists in Jordan and the Arab world have responded to the initiative ( Art against Corona) in a wonderful way. "
She assured Al Jazeera Net via e-mail that affiliation, social solidarity, and community wellness with the homeland and people of the world are the essence and mirror of national and human belonging, indicating that solidarity is the only way for humanity to triumph in this battle.
| Jordanian artist Hazem Al-Zoubi’s donation board for the initiative (Al-Jazeera) |
Jordan has dealt with the Corona crisis in a positive, pioneering manner, as well as wisely and firmly, according to Souad Issawi, but there are families that have been affected by the quarantine and the closure of businesses, and they have become without financial resources such as daily workers (with daily wages) and others.
That is why the initiative came - as you say - to contribute to mitigating them, helping them and securing resources for them, "the idea came from the feeling of people and their pain, and from the necessity of social solidarity and solidarity and standing by each other in the side of crises, as we must be united, solidarity and cooperative."
The 32 Visions Gallery of Art was "the bridge that links the collector and the artist, and it is an essential role we play as an art gallery," according to Issawi.
| The painting of the Jordanian artist Hani Al-Dallah that he donated to support the initiative (Al-Jazeera) |
Objectives of the initiative
The initiative seeks to highlight the social role of art, artists, and artistic bodies, and its connection with human responsibility, especially in these exceptional circumstances, and to emphasize the link between beauty and authentic and noble values of society.
The initiative aims to donate artistic work from Jordanian and Arab artists, and the initiative undertakes the marketing of donated artworks, and provides its proceeds to the health sector and the Ministry of Social Development to help those in need with the aim of strengthening cooperation between official institutions, the private sector and cultural and technical bodies in social support.
| Jordanian Artist Lama Hourani: The Initiative to Emphasize the Role of Art in Serving Society (Al-Jazeera) |
Donation Mechanism
With regard to the mechanism for ensuring the achievement of the goal of the initiative, artist Lama Hourani says that coordination has been coordinated with "Nawa", one of the initiatives of the Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah Foundation, through which the collector can donate the price of the painting to a project to support the Ministry of Health or a project to support daily workers, To be transferred to the bank accounts of the government, and the Ministry of Culture delivers the paintings to their buyers.
Under the initiative, one or more paintings can be donated by the artist. Sending pictures of the paintings is sent to the email of the artist, Lama Hourani, who supervises the initiative, attached to the name of the donor artist, description of the artwork, its dimensions, the material and colors used, the year of the work, in addition to its price. After that they will be sold and their proceeds transferred to the official bank account opened by the Jordanian government for this purpose.
| It is the work of the Syrian artist Boutros Al-Maari, who lives in Germany, and he donated this work to confront Corona (Al-Jazeera) |
Regarding the method of delivering the artworks to the collectors, the works are sent in Jordan after the notification of depositing the price, and the Jordanian Ministry of Culture will deliver them to the work owners, while the delivery of the works outside Jordan is delivered after the notification's arrival, and the transportation conditions are available after the lifting of the ban due to Corona.