He expressed his pride in winning the Sheikh Zayed Book Award

Quwaya: The artwork is not complete until it is shown to the public

• Quwaya: My award-winning book is a critical worksheet of Arab aesthetic culture.

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Tunisian researcher Dr. Khalil Quwaya, winner of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Branch “Arts and Critical Studies 2021”, said about his book “The Path of Modernization in Fine Arts, from Painting to Painting”, that Arab culture is witnessing a great development in creative achievement, at a time when it lacks It has a critical achievement at the same level of development and maturity, stressing that the value of the artwork is only complete by presenting it to the public and critics, and he also expressed his pride in winning the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2021.

Quwaya explained that the development of the creative scene is going in lame paths, due to the Arab culture's reliance on the idea of ​​​​the centrality of the creator, as the cornerstone of the creative process, and did not care about the audience, critic or theorist to the same extent, adding during the dialogue session organized by the "Sea of ​​Culture" Foundation, via Visual communication technology, the day before yesterday, that “every work of art that is accomplished is like a revolution in art and concept, and therefore we find that there is a great development in the battle to liberate the artistic form, but the problem arises in the failure to achieve a parallel development in terms of liberating consideration of the artwork, We did not liberate and develop methods of view and criticism to the same extent that was done in creative work, and we are still dependent on old and outdated concepts that attract artistic creativity back. Critical approaches and texts allow creative work to live and breathe. The audience".

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Quwaya pointed out that his award-winning book represents a critical working paper for Arab aesthetic culture, through which he sought to shed light on the efforts of critics in the Levant and Morocco in order to introduce the creative achievement in the field of Arab arts, by illuminating sections that are almost forgotten by researchers, such as drawings. Glass, and serving the conceptual culture related to fine art.

The Tunisian researcher pointed out that art is no longer betting on aesthetics only, and is no longer the only approach that the artwork deals with, as it has become betting on other values ​​that make it a remarkable force in terms of posing the problems that humanity suffers, so that it is linked to the reality of people and society, adding: “The bet today is critical and conceptual in order to continue creativity at the level of theory and term, as well as we need to expand the area of ​​aesthetic culture, to include very important contributors if we want to engage in contemporary, which contributes to nourishing the cultural conscience of society, and the establishment of the so-called open construction.”

modernity and heritage

The speaker touched on multiple issues addressed in the book, including his adoption of a critical approach on how modern art reached the Arab world, and is the modernity witnessed by Arab culture an outward modernity that came with the "colonial", or did it start from self-awareness in the historical bet, and worked to exploit Its contents and benefits from its gains to write a new history of the forgotten Arab heritage, pointing out that he adopts the second hypothesis which is based on the fact that modernity is a product of awareness, and relied to clarify this on models of culture in Arab countries, where modernity flourished between the first and second world wars, as in the press. Theatre, cinema, plastic and visual arts after that, pointing out that the efforts of modernity cooperated with the ancient heritage such as Arabic calligraphy, traditional industries and crafts, and the architectural and decorative heritage. Therefore, he proceeded to monitor how to move from the craft system and the craftsman in his workshop to the space of artistic creativity in its various forms, adding:“We imported the method of expression and the exhibition hall, but the vocabulary and signs of the language of expression are subjective and linked to heritage, and therefore modernity is like what a person makes of himself.”

• «Art is no longer betting on aesthetics only, and has become a remarkable force with regard to the problems of people and society».

• “We imported the method of expression and the exhibition hall, but our language and vocabulary are subjective and linked to heritage.”

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