Sculptures & Ceramics

Three-dimensional works that share the viewer's space more directly than any other art form — from bronze and marble sculptures to glazed ceramic vessels and large-scale public installations. Modern Arab sculpture was largely founded by two figures: Egyptian Mahmoud Mokhtar, whose monumental Egypt Awakening (1928) stands at the entrance to Cairo University, and Iraqi pioneer Ismail Fatah Al Turk, designer of Baghdad's Martyr's Monument. Their successors — Khaled Al Rahal in Iraq, Mona Saudi in Jordan, and Saloua Raouda Choucair in Lebanon — have shaped an Arab sculptural tradition that bridges classical figuration, modernist abstraction, and contemporary installation.