São Paulo – Lebanese artist Jacques Menassa will exhibit his digital collage works “Tributes, Memories, and Longings” at the City Museum of Manaus, Brazil. The opening is January 24, at 7 pm, and the exhibition will run from January 25 to February 25, 2024, Monday to Friday , 9 am to 4:30 pm. Admission is free. Pictured above, collage “My Identity” that will be on display at the exhibition.
Thirty-two digital collage works printed on photographic paper will be exhibited. Menassa said in a statement that the collage is a technique of art creation that results from an assemblage of different forms like paints, newspaper clippings, and photographs.
“My work is now digital collage, which is the modern part of the collage art. I made some collages thanks to the inspiration that certain memories, people and places gave me, in different situations and spaces. And each work has its own history and an opportunity to make it and create it, as creative inspiration comes from an unknown, spontaneous source,” said the artist.
According to him, the exhibition project is the result of observations and works that lasted over three years. “Most of these collages were made during the COVID-19 isolation, and this exhibited selection is divided into three groups, each one has its own message or idea to express,” he said.
The first part of the show, said Menassa, will be a tribute to his birthplace, Beirut, Lebanon. “Beirut, Bérytos, Beryte, with over 5,000 years of age. Seven times destroyed, seven times rebuilt, like a Phoenix, it will come from the ashes and continue to be the Pearl of the Orient,” he said.
The second part pays tribute to people who left memories during the life of the artist and his stay in Manaus and the Amazon. “And definitely a salute to the Amazon, which lives in my heart,” he said.
Finally, the third part of the collages being exhibited is “a variety of reflections and notes that arose during the COVID-19 isolation on different topics of life,” said the artist.
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Quick facts
Tributes, Memories and Longings
Exhibition of digital collages by Jacques Menassa
Opening: January 24, Wednesday, 7 pm
Visitation from January 25 to February 25
Monday to Friday, 9 am to 4:30 pm
City Museum of Manaus – Paço da Liberdade
Rua Gabriel Salgado – Centro – Manaus, Amazonas
+55 (92) 3622-4991
Free admission
Translation by Guilherme Miranda
