Infinity Hymns
"I see and hear the musicians and dancers with beautiful movements and unity, which drives my imagination wild. Oh, to the utmost extent, I want to transform these pieces of music into colourful lines charged with interaction. The sound combines with the melody, and the music of colour turns through shapes, hand gestures, and facial expressions that sway with the tunes. The dancers' movements are in a state of total fusion between the musicians and the dancers.
My memory contains many heartwarming scenes of dancers and musicians in popular markets. At weddings and holidays, the echo of these melodies continues to haunt me to the point of complete saturation.
In this series of paintings, I extract from my memory scenes that come in flashes of moments I lived, so I make the initial layouts as a key to the scroll. A ball transforms and changes until the painting is ready, which undergoes a series of formal and colour changes.
This idea obsesses me until the painting reflects the hymns close to the heart. This emotional state has turned into an exhibition project that reflects how I experimented and implemented this series with a bird’s eye for the comprehensiveness of the vision and the sense of ascendancy.
For a comprehensive view from top to bottom, the eye sees everything according to the harmony of people's gestural movements in moving compositions like the bird's eye. Symbolically, objects move with an artistic perspective imbalance and are composed colourfully and aesthetically. To present an unusual scene for formative treatment that brings forth a lot of feelings. The feeling becomes more connected with the idea of the painting with its various variations.
The birds-view allows me to free artistic shortcuts and manipulations imposed by imagination, which plays a fundamental role in this innovation and creating a model different from the prevailing one."
Hakim Al Akel
2023
My memory contains many heartwarming scenes of dancers and musicians in popular markets. At weddings and holidays, the echo of these melodies continues to haunt me to the point of complete saturation.
In this series of paintings, I extract from my memory scenes that come in flashes of moments I lived, so I make the initial layouts as a key to the scroll. A ball transforms and changes until the painting is ready, which undergoes a series of formal and colour changes.
This idea obsesses me until the painting reflects the hymns close to the heart. This emotional state has turned into an exhibition project that reflects how I experimented and implemented this series with a bird’s eye for the comprehensiveness of the vision and the sense of ascendancy.
For a comprehensive view from top to bottom, the eye sees everything according to the harmony of people's gestural movements in moving compositions like the bird's eye. Symbolically, objects move with an artistic perspective imbalance and are composed colourfully and aesthetically. To present an unusual scene for formative treatment that brings forth a lot of feelings. The feeling becomes more connected with the idea of the painting with its various variations.
The birds-view allows me to free artistic shortcuts and manipulations imposed by imagination, which plays a fundamental role in this innovation and creating a model different from the prevailing one."
Hakim Al Akel
2023
