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Khalid Horani

Overwhelmed by the ultimate symbol, Tayseer Barakat is an artist, whose works overflow with endless signs from visual art in its different forms to installation.

With deep yearning and longing, Tayseer calls back the divinity of the ancient past to this land preserving the radiance of its history. From the cannanite premiers to the last of the children now being born in the Jabalia Refugee camp on the east cost of Mediterranean. Tayseer, who has look his first breath there, digs deep into memory of the place and its eternal weather, first within the geography of the home and then within that of the ocean to say:
Father, do you know what happened to me?
The sea can not lock me behind any door..
There is no mirror for me to break
To spread into visions on the road ahead..
And then he is taken by the self and occupied by the question and the answers of magic and amazement. As he has been since the floating of the very first boat charged with the mystery of the instant on the surface of the water on the coasts of Gaza. For the artist, the adventure is an anonymous catch of Phoenician sailors living the sea and embracing their mates in the low lands. This glorious image of distant past of what the works of Tayseer inspire taking modern answers from history and adding to it.

In his attempt to reveal the unknown, Tayseer travels far away from the perceived and the intellectual to roam freely within the soul burning into the wood some of the questions of existing and being. As certainty vanishes into its vulnerability, the artist moves away from words, letting free his imagination and dreams to express its legend in color different than all others. A color that does not express itself vividly, but uses logos overflowing with endless signs that have, since the beginning of time, been used by man to overcome worries and concerns through charms and magic.
And today, Tayseer stands at the threshold of primitive true visualization speaking the language of this time defeating the power of matter and subjugating it to a new condition and a new form. Stressing, thus, what is beyond with a code from an unknown world that only lasts for this instant and then disappears and reborn at the same time.
The three- dimensional works of Tayseer made of natural wood using fire takes us to anew space and magic horizons encompassed by mystery that is difficult to recapture. Around this space, people revolve waiting for fate. Charms and spells float within a climate not different from that of a house of a spider. From light and free, the first alphabet of tayseer embarks on its journey into spaces and strings connecting the heaven to the earth, since Tayseer’s windows are wide- open to let the air inside and out.