Overwhelmed by the ultimate symbol, Tayseer
Barakat is an artist, whose works overflow with endless signs from visual
art in its different forms to installation.
With deep
yearning and longing, Tayseer calls back the divinity of the ancient past
to this land preserving the radiance of its history.. From the cannanite
premiers to the last of the children now being born in the Jabalia Refugee
camp on the east cost of Mediterranean.
Tayseer,
who has look his first breath there, digs deep into memory of the place
and its eternal weather, first within the geography of the home and then
within that of the ocean to say:
As he has
been since the floating of the very first boat charged with the mystery of
the instant on the surface of the water on the coasts of Gaza. For the
artist, the adventure is an anonymous catch of Phoenician sailors living
the sea and embracing their mates in the low lands. This glorious image of
distant past of what the works of Tayseer inspire taking modern answers
from history and adding to it.
In his
attempt to reveal the unknown, Tayseer travels far away from the perceived
and the intellectual to roam freely within the soul burning into the wood
some of the questions of existing and being. As certainty vanishes into
its vulnerability, the artist moves away from words, letting free his
imagination and dreams to express its legend in color different than all
others. A color that does not express itself vividly, but uses logos
overflowing with endless signs that have, since the beginning of time,
been used by man to overcome worries and concerns through charms and
magic.
And today,
Tayseer stands at the threshold of primitive true visualization speaking
the language of this time defeating the power of matter and subjugating it
to a new condition and a new form. Stressing, thus,what is beyond with a
code from an unknown world that only lasts for this instant and then
disappears and reborn at the same time.
The three-
dimensional works of Tayseer made of natural wood using fire takes us to
anew space and magic horizons encompassed by mystery that is difficult to
recapture. Around this space, people revolve waiting for fate. Charms and
spells float within a climate not different from that of a house of a
spider. From light and free, the first alphabet of tayseer embarks on its
journey into spaces and strings connecting the heaven to the earth, since
Tayseer's windows are wide- open to let the air inside and out.
This mystic
presence and implicit splendor reveals Tayseer's digression from the
prevailing standards of art and knowledge, as he does not recognize the
limitation of logical facts.
And as the
lover becomes one as he endlessly contemplates the universe, the concepts
of time and romance swing in the imagination of the artist. In his work,
you do not see the science and technology of today. He cares more about
preserving the youthfulness and purity of the idea, than the way to
visualize it.
His goal is
to materialize the human dimension of art utilizing engineering and
chemistry to materialize his drama with the sensitivity of the artist
stressing that knowledge is pending and difficult to be achieved, as dream
that can never come true.
He plays
with the light in dark places but speaks neither of the wildness of the
dark nor of brightness of light.
Tayseer
leaves for the senses to do as he wishes.
Khaled
Horani ..