Libyan Art.

Today i want to point out a libyan artist, i don't want to write about a painter nor an actor, i want to talk about a different type of Art . Maybe i wasn't aware of it or i wasn't interested, i don't know. Maybe there is not enough advertisements made for Art exhibitions, maybe i don't know the right people to tell me about such events, i know (Dar el Fonon) of Tariq El Sekka, the other place that i know is (De villa) - i think this is what it was called - in Gergarish, but i think it has been closed years ago.
I cannot remember the first time i saw an Exhibition for this young Artist, what i can remember is her exhibtion in De Villa, i went there with my friends to have a look, while i was there, one of the famous libyan actors came in, he was walking around in the show rooms and after he finished his 5 min round he asked the responsible person there: “ Emmala el lau7at wen?"
To be honest, i couldn't hold my self, i started to laugh. As the flyers, the advertisements and name on the entrance were clearly statiting that it is a Ceramics exhibition, and this man was asking for the paintings!!!!!

I know that there is a department for Ceramics at the Art Faculty, but i know also that there were not so many intersted students and that only a few of them worked in their field after they have finished their study.
Hadia Gana, a young and talented Libyan Artist, specialized in Ceramics. She studied at the Faculty of Art and she continued with her passion after she had finished her study. She made many exhibitions inside and outside Libya, Tripoli, Naloot, Malta and France. She made herself a Name from her good and professional work.
I was only able to attend three of her exhibitions, but i try to follow up her work, because it is interesting to see her continuous developments and her style changes. She continued her study and got her Master's degree from the UK, and she is now working in two faculties and in an Art school if i am not mistaken.
I tried to google her in the internet, to see a history or some works from her but i was hardley able to find something, and i felt sorry that there is no main website where the Libyan Artists and their works are presented.
Below you will find two links for two articels about her in two different websites, where she is mentioning the effect of her surrounding on her work, i wanted to mention this to tell you that she is the daughter of Ali Gana, El Ustad Ali Gana, i don't think that anyone who studied in the Department of Architecure in El Fateh University or anyone who had the chance and the pleasure to know him personally could ever forget this Man, Allah yar7ma, i have never met a person who had such a peacefull and kind atmosphere around him, by the way Ghazi mentioned El Ustad Ali in one of his Podcasts after he passed away.

The two pictures here are the only ones that i have found on the web, if you take a look at the one above? Do you think that the stones are natural ones? take a close look, I think this exhibition was in in the Old city one year ago.

And the one below is her Master's Project.

I wish her further success in her future work, and i hope that i will be in Libya for her next exhibition.

http://www.kulalfonon.com/dalits3.asp?id_mgal=4960&id_page=7

http://albiytmag.com/details.php?&count=22&id_pages=6&i=1