When: 22/02/2012

Where: The Spiro Ark's Centre, 25-26 Enford Street W1H

Time: 19:30

Contact: 020 7723 9991

Price: Free entrance to this exhibition

Dr Amar Sabri Ahmad born in Baghdad combines a prestigious scientific career at the Department of the Wolfson of Preventive Medicine Queen Mary University of London. With a fascinating and successful art pursuit which has accompanied his studies in Germany. His dedication to art is based on the principal idea that art may be a kind of language transferring information and emotion within different periods of time and within different cultures. Central elements in Amar Ahmad's art are Sumerian characters, the writing and meaning of which remains to be only partially decoded. By using these characters and simultaneously their fascinating structure on colourfully arranged backgrounds, Amar Ahmad transposes these signs of an ancient advanced civilisation over a period of 6000 years into modern times. Thus his pictures seem to establish an alternative form of communication between cultures, historical periods and ways of thinking, irrespective of time and of differences in history, tradition, or philosophy.
The word has the knowledge of the spirit, the word is the light of the spirit, the word is the tongue of the spirit, the word is at the beginning of the spirit, the word is the end of the spirit, the word is the residence of the spirit, and the word is the centre of the spirit.
Amar Sabri Ahmad