By chance I was flipping the TV channels, and my hand fell on the “mbc”, and Nasser Al-Qasabi, the Saudi Arabian artist who for years has colored the Gulf screen with various artistic, presents the idea of art for reality, and art is far from clowning, and art is a tool for formulating a human reality that is not subject to contempt. Defamation, fabrication, laughter for the sake of laughter, playing with words and ideas, and turning the artistic screen into a slur that provokes nausea.
What Al-Qasabi presents in “Al-Asouf” discusses the issue of touching the conscience of every human being on the face of this universe, and a fundamental idea as long as the stale water has stirred in the conscience of everyone who cares about humanity, and everyone who is concerned with life without superstition, without blasphemy and without myths what God has revealed with it Sultan.
In this artwork presented by Al-Qasabi and his companions in the series, the person feels that he is in front of a figure that mimics the mind, and exercises its cultural role in enlightenment, illumination, and shedding the surgical scalpel in the natural place, in order to empty the shabby vessel from its poor content, and to go with the mind towards the authority of consciousness.
The truth is in dire need of such serious actions, full of meanings, and saturated with the singularity of restoring the pomegranate of scales to its rightful place, after it was turned away by a mind that lost its balance, and a conscience sharpened from the great truths.
We need actions that purify our minds from the taint of doctrinal coma, and return the mind to its home in awareness that does not accept eradicating facts, giving precedence to the logic of non-logic, dragging societies beyond the sun, diving into illusions, and living among the pits of diseased imaginations.
Nasser Al-Qasabi is qualified to play the living role that restores the mind’s position, and results in a luminous moon in the basin, drawing a smile, and engraving in the mind the image of a real human being without attachment to illusory terms, ambiguous concepts, and thoughts like insects that have lost their way to their home in the tree that rises in the atmosphere green.
We hope that such works will continue on our satellite screens, which have long financed art projects with no purpose and no value. And the Arab Gulf states are able to lead the stage by presenting convincing works, and art that fills the mind.
The important thing is to have the will and awareness of the importance of satellite screens serving high human values, and the determination to sharpen artistic energies for the sake of building societies that are not obstructed by dark, sterile, nihilistic ideas, flimsy, dilapidated, their weapon is illusion, and their food is lies, and slander the right thought. .
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