From June 11, 2026 to July 9, 2026

Galerie Tanit, Mar Mikhael, Beirut, Lebanon

Ziad Antar, The Pink Mountain - After Images, Stories From the Mountains of Aseer Series, 2016, Inkjet print on photo paper, 126 cm x 126 cm, Edition 2 of 5

Since the dawn of Romanticism, our relationship with nature has been fundamentally rewritten. To the casual eye, a landscape may pass as unremarkable. However, when seen with emotional intensity, it awakens the sublime, that strange fusion of dread and wonder stirred by vast, untamed places. Romanticist poets knew this well. They turned landscapes into living verse, finding in nature not just beauty but a catalyst for the creative spirit. The humbling scale of a landscape fuels creativity, whether in literature or visual art.

This exhibition was born from the wake of political turmoil and the growing threat to landmass. It speaks to the sense of belonging to a place, and how that bond fades under the pressure of a fast paced lifestyle. The environment becomes overlooked, not out of malice, but by the seduction of the modern world, offering fleeting pleasures that leave little room for meditation upon the natural realm.

Each work in this exhibition is a silent poem. These artists do not write with words but with color and intense visual representations of nature. Some artists have even taken a more paradoxical approach. They depict the slow creep of urbanization not as progress, but as an encroaching shadow, a quiet loss of land that echoes the very tension of the sublime.

Piece by piece, the works become stanzas in an anthology of nature.

Artists

Abed Al Kadiri

Zena Assi

Ghassan Zard

Elger Esser

Giulio Rimondi

Rania Matar

Franck Christen

Szilard Huszank

Joan Ill

Jacques Vartabedian

Arcangelo

Ziad Antar

Daniele Genadry

Issa Halloum

Samia Osseiran Junblat

Elie Kanaan

Mazen Rifai

Hind Nasser

Elie-Philipe Schehade

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige

Rony Gebrael

Michael Biberstein

Image Gallery

Franck Christen
Cedrus Libani
2004
Pigmented Print Framed
53 cm x 53.5 cm
Edition 1 of 10

Mazen Rifai
Untitled
2018
Acrylic on Canvas
34.5 x 44

Samia Osseiran Junblat
Landscape
1986
Watercolor on paper
51 cm x 65 cm

Issa Halloum
Bekaa Valley

Acrylic on Canvas
63 cm x 160 cm

Elie Kanaan
Untitled

Aquarelle
29.5 cm x 39.5 cm

Zena Assi
Study of a cloud after constable #22
2023
Oil, Oil sticks, Collage and Ink on Framed Canvas
15 cm x 20.5 cm

Zena Assi
Study of a cloud after constable #38
2023
Oil, Oil sticks, Collage and Ink on Framed Canvas
15 cm x 20.5 cm

Zena Assi
Study of a cloud after constable #28
2023
Oil, Oil sticks, Collage and Ink on Framed Canvas
15 cm x 20.5 cm

Zena Assi
Study of a cloud after constable #13
2023
Oil, Oil sticks, Collage and Ink on Framed Canvas
15 cm x 20.5 cm

Zena Assi
Study of a cloud after constable #6
2023
Oil, Oil sticks, Collage and Ink on Framed Canvas
15 cm x 20.5 cm

Zena Assi
Study of a cloud over Beirut #2
2023
Oil, Oil sticks, Collage and Ink on Framed Canvas
105 cm x 136.5 cm

Jacques Vartabedian
Flora Incompatible 1
2024-2025
Acrylic on Canvas
100 cm x 200 cm

Jacques Vartabedian
Head North
2026
Acrylic on Canvas
147 cm x 123.5 cm

Abed al Kadiri
Cataclysm
2024
Charcoal, Pastel and Oil on Canvas
169.5 cm x 124 cm

Abed al Kadiri
Short poem, Sunset 17
2024
Charcoal, Pastel and Oil on Canvas
27 cm x 22 cm

Abed al Kadiri
Short poem, Sunset 4
2024
Charcoal, Pastel and Oil on Canvas
27 cm x 22 cm

Abed al Kadiri
Short poem, Sunset 14
2024
Charcoal, Pastel and Oil on Canvas
27 cm x 22 cm

Abed al Kadiri
Short poem, Sunset 5
2024
Charcoal, Pastel and Oil on Canvas
27 cm x 22 cm

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
Sois un verre qui vibre et qui dans son chant s’est brisé
2024
Iron, specially treated glass, LED, photographic print on Duratrans
63 x 85 x 8 cm

Joan Ill
Our sea 14 (triptych)
2021
Digigraphy on Polyester Canvas, Linen Wood and Paint
160 cm x 48 cm (each)

Ghassan Zard
La Dechirure #12
2020
Acrylic on Canvas
100 cm x 150 cm

Ghassan Zard
La Dechirure #18
2020
Acrylic on Canvas
100 cm x 150 cm

Szilard Huszank
IL Nr. 95_64x50
2021
Aquarelle on paper
64 cm x 50 cm

Szilard Huszank
IL Nr. 85_64x50
2021
Aquarelle on paper
64 cm x 50 cm

Szilard Huszank
IL Nr. 60_64x50
2018
Aquarelle on paper
64 cm x 50 cm

Szilard Huszank
IL Nr. 78_64x50
2021
Aquarelle on paper
64 cm x 50 cm

Elie-Philipe Schehade
La promenade
2024
Aquarelle on Paper, Enhanced with gouache
49 cm x 66 cm

Giulio Rimondi
Pigeon's rock
2018
Giclée print with handmade matting treatment
113 cm x 74 cm
Edition 1 of 5

Elger Esser
Enfeh IV, Libanon 2005
2005
C-print, diasec face
103 cm x 147.5 cm
Edition 5 of 7

Rania Matar
Tara, Beirut, Lebanon
2023
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
48 cm x 60 cm
Edition 1 of 8

Rania Matar
Tara (in the flowers), Bekaatat Kanaan, Lebanon 2022
2022
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
98 cm x 125 cm
Edition 1 of 2

Ziad Antar
Beirut
2022
Inkjet print in archival paper
120 cm x 170 cm
Edition 1 of 5 + 2 AP

Hind Nasser
Untitled
2005
Oil on Canvas
20 cm x 20 cm

Daniele Genadry
Dahr el Baydar
2011
Oil and acrylic paint on wood panel
60 cm x 75.5 cm

Michael Biberstein
Chromatic Glider
2004
Acrylic on Canvas
200 cm x 200 cm