Art debate in kuwait

An artistic friend from kuwait ( Shahad Bishara invited me to a session in kuwait contemporary art museum regarding graffiti wither its vandilisim or art a week ago . 

The seasion was very interesting ... I have to honestly say the presentation wasnt as strong, because the guy who prepared it related graffiti to rebilion generally and used micheal angelos statue of david as an example of rebillion existence through history using art. Nevertheless, people feed back to thia whole graffiti and public art was mainly positive. What made a lot of diffrence is witnessing people acceptance to thos whole movement especially in the middle-east.

I believe we shouldnt caregorize ourselves and relate to this whole western movement , with all respect. Our back ground is diffrent but we should embrace thia common love to muralisim and work together to make it a strong scene.

In the debate i met some talented young artists  who had a great finger print in directing the debate and relating their life style to that of the community, such as:

- alitwo_

- Nizzy7th

- visualtherapy 

- thesword_crew

Follow them on insta....

And last but not least i leave you with pictures.

Have a wonderful day folks.

Ulafaa Initiative

Ulafaa is an amazing artistic group founded by creative team to express and use art to interact with our society.

Ulafaa

Ulafa'a is an art project that aims to set a comfortable creative environment to listen to different stories regarding socio-political issues in Bahrain. The program would include a series of public events to interact with the community through different creative approaches. The reflections of this experience would be presented through several exhibitions.

(Ulafaa , 2012) : http://ulafaainitiative.blogspot.com

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Lately Ulafaa team have been around contributing in some events and experimenting through various social activities to draw smiles on people

Please visit their article on Bahrains Gulf Daily News and support them by spreading the word.

Link to PDF scan of GDN : http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/source/XXXV/292/pdf/page04.pdf

A night before If walls could talk Exhibition

This is just a coverage of what was going before the opening.

There are 3 days left till it closes so make sure you check it out and tell friends see it too.

Big thank you to all the guys who came and supported us and also the friendly artists

who co-operated and made it happen.

Behance Nov. 2012

The video shown below is for a Behance event which took place last november by several designers, artists in Khobar, Saudi.

The experience gained from that event was unique especially among many people who appreciate and work on encouraging a creative movement.

I Believe this video would encourage artist and designers from the region to participate , attend and join the next one to share , network and enhance their work.

" Behance Portfolio Reviews bring members together at events in cities
and towns around the world — organized by members, for members.

In Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia we had Behance Portfolio Reviews on the
15th of November, 2012 for the second time with more than
200 attendance and fabulous designers presenting their work with our
community and we have succeed to encourage this small beautiful city
share, network & connect.

By: Abdallah Ahmad (abdallah-ahmad86@hotmail.com) " 

( Lama Aswad , Youtube :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdg977tvgY4 )

special thanks to Lama Aswad and the Team for all their love and support.

If Walls Could Talk Exhibition

Hello Everyone !

i would love to invite you to attend our up coming exhibition " If Walls Could Talk " at the Bahrain Financial Harbor on the 6th of December at 7pm with some of Bahrain most talented upcoming artists.

Below you can view the press article about it in arabic and also the exhibition poster :

ill be updating you about the process of my work and take you into a small trip via two/three post.

hope to see you guys there and stay tuned .

السلام عليكم
أردت أن أدعوكم جميعا للمعرض المشترك الآتي في مرفأ البحرين المالي واللذي سيكون بتاريخ ٢٠١٢/١٢/٦ م بالساعة السابعة مساءً. . سيضم المعرض عدد من الفنانين البحرينيين الواعدين بشتى أعمالهم تحت عنوان لو كانت الجدار تتكلم .
اتمنى أن اشرفوا المعرض بالزيارة و أن تحضروا الأصدقاء و المحبون للفن معكم.

سوف أقوم بأخذ صور للتجهيزات قبل بدء المعرض فترقبوا يا أعزائي

بالأسفل يوجد الإعلان للمعرض المأخوذ من جريدة محليه و أيضاً الإعلان .

Me on Instagram

This is a quick break off the blog in a way, Which i also do take pictures of places that i go to and also art work of mine.

My User name is : Thyleond

these is a pictures ive have taken last weekend :

wish you all a good evening .

Interview With BTV

Yesturday The Crew [Mythicolo-G] and I had an exclusive interview with bahrain TV. The reporter had our latest graffiti in it and while. The interview highlighted some brief question and answers about:

• History of our work and team
• Problems faced
• Our message

The interview should be broadcasted Next Sunday on TV, and also uploaded to our Youtube channel.

These are Pictures from out latest work:

This Piece was mainly about Respect and Positivity.

for full preview please click on the picture

This is my part of the graffiti , the guy with the Lotus

and wordings of an arabic quote :

Thus shall be forgiven by the one in the sky, "Those who have mercy on whose on ground"

its more to do with humbleness i thought and being respectful to things from earth.

once that trust and morals are achieved you become respected.

Now i leave you with pictures from the interview :

All pictures were shot by : Leon D. (photography)

To view more posts from Leon D. artwork please visit : www.leon-d-art.blogspot.com

you can also check out my FB art page on : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Leon-D/71748882295

The Crews official Blog : http://mythicolo-g-streetart.blogspot.com/

thank you for passing by ^^

Market 338 [ Graffiti ]

Last week was a blast ! we had a dramatic change from home and studio painting on weekends to Do graffiti live , which is not so common here.

The place was the market 338 and at the same spot there was an event sponsored by Bahrain TVfor make up at the gallery, which made people curious and look at us Paint.

The piece i have drawn had a basic human figure with arabic calligraphy on, simply to add more of a cultural touch to it, but most importantly the glowing heart in the middle that shows truth , believe and probably faith.

Thank you for passing by everyone 

for more info and other posts please visit my blog on : www.leon-d-art.blogspot.com

Birds!

Last week i had a creative night walk with my buddy Illuveda in al-adlya area which was pretty productive ,
It started from albareh gallery , which had an international group exhibition with bird themes.the evening later on extended to live sketches and meeting new people at night.

Also, Albareh Gallery cafe i found these amazing calligraphic paintings , they may not be as clear but worth looking at . the writings or letters were over-layered with similar patterns with the same color contrast which made more organic .

Hope you found these pictures interesting and if you like them then make sure you visit before jan the 2nd.

And finally this is a Sketch of my Dear friend Illuveda ( http://www.illuveda.blogspot.com )

wish you all a wonderful day/evening

for more information about my art please visit: www.leon-d-art.blogspot.com

Motör Militia album cover [ journal - pt1 ]

Me and my friends , Huvil , Illuveda and Intel , spent a productive friday having socials and also meeting with the famous Thrash Metal Bahraini band Motör Militia.  the Target that meeting was to design an artistic album for their upcoming album [

Cloaked In Darkness]. The album has awesome brutal tracks consisting of music influenced via the local and regional  events, news and activities 

for now i leave you with some pictures and hope you like them.

check their fb group at : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Motor-Militia/42102037806

and their Myspace page at: http://www.myspace.com/motormilitiaband

for more information about the blog please visit : www.leon-d-art.blogspot.com

Keep it metal , keep it brutal !