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Jacaranda Images has the pleasure to invite you to meet the
artist and view Bader Mahasneh’s
Ink on Paper at 6pm on I July 2009.
BADER MAHASNEH
‘INKS ON PAPER’
Bader Mahasneh is the featured artist at Jacaranda Images for the month of July, showing 6 of his sensitive ink drawings on paper.
Bader’s ink drawings on paper are figures without substance, almost transparent with a deliberate mystery. A general human shape, with layers of ink make them as complicated as real men and women are. The figures are not reduced to objects on the paper purely for the viewer to look at, but for the viewer to see through, to wonder what elements make up the faceless person.
His technique gives this transparency, unachievable in any other medium, with the colours used independently and in combination to create the layers of life.
Bader Mahasneh is a multi talented young painter, photographer, illustrator and sculptor. Born in Jerash, Jordan in 1977, he started painting on his own at the age of five.
After graduating with a Bachelors Degree from Yarmouk University in 2002, the artist pursued his early art passion as he became a member at the painting studio at Yarmouk University and won third prize of young artists competition the same year. Shortly after, Bader became involved in many workshops as he took part in designing the décor of the University theatre in 2002-2004 and made sculptures of snow and fire in winter 2003. In the year 2006, Bader participated in several print making workshops at the National Gallery in Amman-Jordan.
His first and second solo exhibitions were held at the French Cultural Center, then his third exhibition at the Orient Gallery. After Orient Gallery exhibition he started seriously making sculptures with a solo exhibition at Zara Gallery of the work. Group exhibitions in Jordan, Syria, Yemen, Thailand and Sweden have been held over the past 10 years.
