Mark Hachem Gallery is happy to announce its participation in Art Dubai 2021.

In this year's edition, the gallery invites you to discover a collection of rare works from two masters: Hussein Madi and Dario Perez Flores.

Both artists are from the same generation: Perez-Flores was born in 1936, and Madi in 1938. After completing their art studies, they both left their native countries. Madi stayed in Rome for 25 years, later coming back to Lebanon, while Perez-Flores settled indefinitely in France after leaving Venezuela in 1970.

In Paris, Perez-Flores joined his compatriots Soto and Cruz-Diez and numerous Latin-American artists exiled in France. There, they discovered the abstract artists of the west, such as Malevitch and the Russian Suprematists, Bauhaus, De Stijl, Calder, Vasarely... They integrated this western art into their research and studies, and came up with a new step, a movement essential to the twentieth century: Kinetic art.

Madi is independent in that we cannot tie him to a group, and even less so to a movement. Nevertheless, his lonesome trajectory could be assimilated to the trajectory of Middle Eastern artists. Figurative and mystical, Madi's research pushes the limit of abstraction. He reaches a unique synthesis between Western art - totally assimilated - and Middle Eastern art, whose influence is decisive.

Bringing together Perez-Flores and Madi means showing two artistic trajectories, characteristic of the twentieth century. Two destinies, two visions whose works continue to enrich the biggest museums and other big private collections but also to influence new generations of artists.