carolina@carolinakhouri.com
Carolina Khouri was born in lebanon, grew up in Poland and she has been living in London for five years where she graduated as an interior designer. Carolina has no formal art training. Her art mentors were the established artists, who inspired her to penetrate innovative techniques and styles.
Carolina aimed at finding the expression and manner that her art can appear in its individual recognition and to define her own singular identity as an artist. For over the past decade
Many of her paintings has been sold directly to the private collection in Poland, Germany, USA, Lebanon, UK.
Artist’s Statement
Strictly Woman is the first series to emerge from Carolina's studio in the warehouse district in north London. The series, which was first conceived 8 years ago, is a progression of her previous work, focussing on the embattled image of women in modern art.
Carolina's canvases are intimate pieces, each with their own personality. Some are serene and contemplative. Other are more dynamic, hinting at an undercurrent of violence or ferocity. All are deeply sensual. All portray women with courage. Independence in their own way.
And though these artworks are decorative they are not vapid. For Carolina, they suggest the strength and substance of woman in all her diversity; her particular characteristics and qualities of nature – her steadfastness, her potency, her poise.
The female form has been co-opted and exploited throughout much of art and advertising history. In Strictly Woman this trend is turned on its head; 'woman' is reclaimed and imbued with power, given a voice of her own with which to communicate.
The viewer develops their own relationship with the 'woman' in the canvas. She, however, remains unequivocal, untouchable, remote; reluctant to divulge anything of her true self/nature to the viewer.
The individual artworks in Strictly Woman have been created through a process of painting over collage. The original images of woman used for the collages are kept anonymous. The idea is to create the character. Personality. The composition has then been transformed into a state of feeling and sensuality through the application of colour.
Carolina's nomadic lifestyle over the past decade has meant that previously the project has had to exist in a portable size. Now, with access to a studio in London, she has been enabled to let the vision grow. The big canvases empower the creation.
The idea behind the project.
The motivation behind this art project is symbolic. The sale of the artworks from Strictly Woman is intended to assist the new London Centre of Diamond Way Buddhism, which is one of the major school of Tibetan Buddhism. It is Carolina's wish that in this way, the canvases from Strictly Woman will pay their part in helping preserve the timeless and universal teachings of Buddha; full of peace and wisdom.
Carolina believes that the generosity of all parties, artist and buyer, will help sustain the unbroken tradition of oral transmission of profound teachings that is such an integral part of Tibetan culture, which is slowly disappearing in its original form. Witnessing it, Carolina fully offers Strictly Woman project for charity.
Exhibitions:
June 1999 - The Vernissage of the Word - solo exhibition - Gaude Mater, Czestochowa, Poland
March 2004 - The Painting of the Year - Krolikarnia, Warsaw, Poland
September 2008 - One Night Exhibition - solo exhinition - East Dulwich, London, UK
May 2009 - Camden Lock Art Fair - Camden Lock, London, UK
June 2009- Art and Music Night - Cargo, Shereditch, London, UK
August 2009 - Camden Lock Art Fair - Camden Lock, London, UK
Coming Exhibitions
October 2009 - Open Call - Frieze Art Show - Regent's Park, London UK
October 2009 - Strictly Woman - solo exhibition - The Incubator, Manor House, London UK
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