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Landscape Conversations
Group show 7 Nov - 5 Dec 2025 Art on 56th Gallery reaches a new milestone in 2025, celebrating 13 years of activity dedicated to Contemporary Art, a journey of continuous support for established and emerging artists. To celebrate this seminal moment, the Gallery is presenting its group show “Landscape Conversations”, featuring six artists: Wissam Beydoun, Layla Dagher,... Read more -
Unexpected Dialogue
Solo exhibition 16 May - 7 Jun 2025 Against the fatal quietude
New, astounding, powerful, and confident is Layla Dagher’s latest exhibition. It advances with assured steps, not horizontally but structurally, in the fabric of the painting and its chromatic and architectural composition.
This is the result of a painting that reflects on the process through which it finds its futurity, leaning on the legacy of its distinctive experiences in handling natural landscapes on one hand, and urban spaces on the other. These two legacies are fully integrated in the exhibition—twin-like, interwoven. In fact, they form the foundation for a coherent
and expressive compositional world, with a solidarity and unity that is unmistakable.
It is indeed a world in which the painting does not disavow its past, but rather ‘reinvents’ it as never before. And here we are; facing a painting that enables this familiar,calm, narrative past to find its way into a forthcoming life. One that engages with the complexities of the current era, probes the questions of art, tests them, confronts them,
argues with them, and harmonizes with them.
And in doing all this, it moves beyond confession, preserving instead symbols and meanings, focusing its compositional and investigative energy on how to harmonize details,elements, tools, additions, collages, and colors so they materialize into a single orchestral structure—scenic and urban—that unlocks the horizon for the painting, making it fruit of today’s diverse artistic rebirths.
Whilst reading the varied lives within the painting, the ‘cunning’ calmness perceived by the eye undoubtedly reflects the artist’s refusal to settle for what is ready-made, familiar,
conventional, or reassuring in landscape or urban-scene paintings.
That same ‘cunning’ calmness also reflects the patient and precise effort surrounding the act of composing, and the experimental culture that unceasingly seeks out what
empowers it to confront the hardships of contemporary life, to absorb and express them—an indication of the unique quality of Layla Dagher’s work.
The exhibition is in search of a painting that escapes the realm of fatal quietude—and it succeeds in finding its pursuit.Therein lies its secret.
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From Heartland to Homeland
Solo exhibition 13 Feb - 8 Mar 2025 From Heartland to Homeland consists of three series of paintings created between 2023 and 2024. This body of work takes the viewer on a journey through my heartland, unfolding in three parts: Euphoria, Shared Perspectives, and Restlessness. The city of Beirut, with its beauty and streets that continuously unfold stories... Read more -
TIMELESS TRADITIONS
Solo Exhibition 17 Jan - 8 Feb 2025 My collage art encompasses cityscapes, local landscapes, and themes of heritage and nostalgia. The artworks are deeply inspired by the moments and issues I encounter in day-to-day life, reflecting my memories and my emotions with authenticity and care, drawn from my surroundings. A notable and recent evolution in my practice... Read more -
MY OWN SWEET SOLITUDE
solo exhibition 25 Sep 2024 - 18 Oct 2025 It is within a universe steeped in solitude and silence, this chosen, sacred, and precious solitude that Georges Bassil evolves, creates, withdraws and invites the gaze to rest. Through some twenty canvases, where his signature, atmosphere, and talent are instantly felt in a single glance, in a single emotion, the... Read more -
"Le Corbeau et Le Regard
Solo exhibition 8 Jun - 1 Jul 2023 Read more -
Fugues
Solo exhibition 5 - 27 May 2023 Read more -
Beau Négatif
Solo exhibition 23 Feb - 18 Mar 2023 Read more -
LOCAL INSPIRATIONS
Solo exhibition 13 Jan - 4 Feb 2023 Read more -
Escapism
Solo exhibition 18 Nov - 10 Dec 2022 Read more -
R E - I M A G I N I N G B E I R U T
Solo exhibition 20 Oct - 12 Nov 2022 It is all about Beirut. It ’s about a city that is deep under my skin like an old, fading tattoo. It ’s about a love and hate relationship that has been going on for almost 47 years. It is a map: A personal cartography. With an abstract approach, I... Read more -
Under the same roof
Solo exhibition 25 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 Art on 56th is pleased to announce “Under the Same Roof”, a solo exhibition of works by Syrian artist Tarek Butayhi. The gallery will showcase his body of paintings, conceived between 2016 and 2022, focusing on his personification of suffering through portraiture. He moves away from his traditional subject matter,... Read more -
Belonging For (1990-2022)
Solo Exhibition 25 Feb - 19 Mar 2022 Belonging For . This series was painted on location, the places were chosen by how the light reveals the landscape, and its timeless relationship with my country. The paintings are absorbed by this continuum, where I explore my belonging through panoramic perspectives. When I’m on location I contemplate my heritage,... Read more -
Brilliance of Nature
Solo exhibition 26 Nov - 23 Dec 2021 Read more -
Imagined Certainty
Solo exhibition 10 Jun - 10 Jul 2021 Read more -
Comeback 2020
Group exhibition 11 Dec 2020 - 15 Jan 2021 Read more -
ONCE UPON A TIME
solo exhibition 1 - 26 Oct 2019 Read more -
Fifty Three Years
Retrospective exhibition 12 Apr - 1 Jun 2019 Read more -
The wondrous & probable life of Mr. H
Solo exhibition 23 Nov - 15 Dec 2018 Read more -
Beirut in Patterns
Solo exhibition 26 Oct - 17 Nov 2018 Read more -
Chronic Blueprint 1995 - 2018
Solo exhibition 28 Sep - 20 Oct 2018 Read more -
Collective 2018
Group exhibition 6 Jul - 28 Sep 2018 Read more -
Dance for
solo exhibition 27 Apr - 12 May 2018 Read more -
A woman defies waiting
Solo exhibition 26 Jan - 17 Feb 2018 And From The Lines, What Is Less And Less Saoud Abdallah begins his work by dispensing from all the virtues and aesthetics of known photography. The thick, transparent colors touch but do not change. The badminton games on the cloth’s surface mean nothing to him, the back and forth is... Read more -
Collective 2017
Group exhibition 7 Jul - 29 Sep 2017 Read more -
Zouhair Dabbagh
Solo exhibition 5 - 27 May 2017 Read more -
Untold stories
Solo exhibition 10 Mar - 1 Apr 2017 Read more -
Room 11
Solo Exhibition 21 Oct - 5 Nov 2016 Read more -
Never been seen
Collective Exhibition 21 Jul - 10 Sep 2016 Read more -
Art on Paper
Collective exhibition 11 Dec 2015 - 9 Jan 2016 Read more -
BREATHLESS
Solo exhibition 2 - 24 Oct 2015 Read more -
Icarus
Solo exhibition 8 - 30 May 2015 Read more -
Tailor-made
Solo exhibition 16 Apr - 4 May 2015 Read more -
Women on canvas 2015
Solo exhibition 4 - 28 Mar 2015 Read more -
Rain on me
Solo exhibition 9 - 31 Jan 2015 Read more -
Interpretations
Solo exhibition 18 Nov - 8 Dec 2014 Read more -
Mouneer Al Shaarani 2007-2014
Solo exhibitions 22 Oct - 13 Nov 2014 The work of Mouneer Al Shaarani, prior to being that of a calligrapher who is passionate about Arabic calligraphy, is the work of a designer, and the work of a graphic designer experimenting with calligraphy and using it in new and various functions. Al Shaarani worked on each letter as... Read more -
Spot in Memory
Dual exhibition 8 - 29 May 2014 Whispers of Sand Saoud Al Abdallah works on doing away with the aesthetics of color - what painters find pleasure in - to delve in his treasured terrain, which is the cluster, turning his back to lines and tactility. He refines the elements of his painting: a child, a woman... Read more -
C h i l d ’ s M e s s a g e
Solo exhibition 14 Apr - 5 May 2014 Read more -
2000 - 2014
Solo exhibition 19 Feb - 11 Mar 2014 Read more -
Lost and Found
Solo exhibition 24 Sep - 12 Oct 2013 Read more -
Hasko Hasko
Solo exhibition 11 Jun - 1 Jul 2013 Read more -
2005-2013
16 May - 6 Jun 2013 Read more -
Nazir Ismail
Solo exhibition 25 Mar 2013 Read more -
Layers of a Tale
Solo exhibition 28 Feb - 20 Mar 2013 Read more -
Women In Canvas
4 - 23 Feb 2013 Read more -
Calligraphy art works
Solo exhibition 8 - 29 Jan 2013 My contemporary works derive their sap from Arab calligraphy roots Having studied the six styles of Arab Calligraphy that were mainly influenced by the Ottomans, who limited the styles as well as their application, I gained profound knowledge in the artistic and historical aspects. This in turn helped mold my... Read more -
Edward Shahda
Solo exhibition 13 Nov - 3 Dec 2012 Read more
