 Joseph
Faloughi
Artist
Statement:
When color became
my friend, it was a very fortunate event.
I used to feel happy while painting, feeling even happier by gazing
at my work later on.
I realized that colors coming from within, when communicating with
others came back to converse with me.
It is a blissful feeling when colors reach peoples’ heart because
they become brighter by the mere fact that they are seen by others.
Biography:
Date of birth
:16/11/1950
Marital status : Married - 3 children
Academic
status
Elementery
& Secondary School:
Mariste school jounieh 1958-1965
High School:
Champville College 1966-1969
University:
- 1974 Bachelor degree in Philosophy - LU
- 1977 Bachelor degree in Psychology - LU
- 1977 Bachelor degree in Sociology - LU
- 1978 Diplome in Drawing &Painting - LU
- 1978 Bachelor degree in Law - LU
- 1985 Master degree in Philosophy - LU
:
Senior Projects
1978 Diplome project in Drawing & Painting subject "Omar
Onsi"
1985 Master project in Philosophy "Foreign exchange in the
economocal philosophy"
Art
exhibitions
- 1988 Single exhibition at Rumors gallery -Kaslik
- 2006 Single exhibition at gallery " Surface Libre" -
Jal el Dib
- 1986 - 2002 Participant at "Autumn exhibition" at Sursock
museum, Beirut associate since 1995
- 1974-2005 Participant in different group exhibitions in Lebanon
Associations
- Member of Lebanesen Art Association
- Member of Cultural Committee of Grand Bikfaya
Prices
- 1970 Poetry Price from "Dar el Fan wal adab"
- 1980 Drawing price for the "5 Lebanese Pounds" from
"Banque du Liban"
Professional
status
Principal Director of the Financial Markets dpt at "Banque
du Liban" - Beirut
Sydicate
experience
1993-1997 Secretary of Central Bank's employees syndicate
2005 President of Central Bank's employees syndicate
Languages:
Arabic - French - English
Hobbies:
Chess and general sports
Article:
Dialogues - Joseph Faloughi at the gallery Surface Libre.
He was convinced
that a work of art is creation before being a canvas or a plastic
fabric of some sort…. He had acquired all the information that his
sensitive and pure soul employed, expressing his feelings, ideas,
conceptions, his own personnel world with its far away rich and
humanized horizons.
Joseph Faloughi lives his work and the overflow of emotions shining
from the paintings proves this. This silent being with the ability
to listen, to meditate and feel intensely his paintings, the expression
of his agitated and tormented soul….. He is like a storm brewing
under the calm waters waiting to explode on a palette with marvelous
colors.
At Surface Libre, we have a selection of these last two years’ work.
Patterns, shapes, colors, movement, space….create unity. They are
inseparable. Shapes that are not always concrete leave in our mind
the impression originated by the first ideas.
Joseph Faloughi does not exhibit much, but paint, draws and work
a lot. He wishes to tell us with his recent paintings about the
stamp of his soul, extending this impression to reach his poetic
side…. A work without soul is a mediocre senseless thing which is
not the case with Faloughi’s art. Restlessly, obstinately, he studies
nature and dissect it. He investigates about reality simplifying
and expressing his own nature and transforming the latter to abstract,
dynamic, living forms….
Faloughi expresses the notion of Clair-obscure, cherished by artists
for centuries by colorful shades, complementary angles, juxtapositions,
styles, expressions...
Joseph knows by heart pictorial secrets that he uses with subtleness
to create an atmosphere born from his unconscious and inspiring
the consciousness of the spectator who judges, observes, feels…criticizes
in the same time.
He carries with him the atmosphere in his paintings and we live
it too. It talks to us, it attracts our eyes, and often creates
in us this attitude that I call “emotion”.
Joseph Faloughi is so calm and serene when we see him at first but
he paints with love, passion, but he has fire smouldering inside
of him, the fire of his love for the earth, of mankind, of life,..
and the fire of artistic creation.
He lives his subjects, meaning his works. He moulds them within
a game between the eye, the soul, the spirit and the hand…. Like
the baker with his dough…
With his rich colors and substances flowing and circulating on the
canvass to create a new image of the universe, opening doors and
horizons adequate to his contemporary conceptions.
Lights originating from the sun are here, on the cymatium of Surface
Libre, a multitude of lights sparkling from everywhere end colliding,
burning the spectator’s soul.
Today, in this exhibit, Joseph Faloughi is fully mature. He reveals
his own personality, expressing his identity with great skill -
a personel style, finding all his “moi”.
This is a period of maturity.
The exhibit in Surface Libre is the living proof of that.
Joseph Mattar - Avril 06
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Fleurs
de Bikfaya par l'artiste peintre Joseph Faloughi, Huile sur toile,
68 x 97 cm
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of the artist's artwork
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Contact: sami.faloughi@gmail.com
Physical
address :
Zalka - Zalka Relax building Tel : 01-887162
Bekfaya - El Delb Tel : 04-986616
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