Humanity in its behavior as in its mental dispositions is in continuous relentless transformation. The history of humanity represents for man an accumulation of conquests of himself as well as of nature. Mankind is able today to emancipate herself from her animalism, and this is through her faculty of thinking, through the formation of his senses and especially through her creative power. She gradually affirms, throughout the centuries, her power over things and dominates the world.

Ever since creation, art (drawing, painting, sculpture, still image, animated image, moving image) expresses the man’s will to recapture his nature and the integrality of his creative power. It survives the societies that engender it, and the mythologies that inspire it.  The plastic work, especially “the image in all its forms”, materializes the spiritual and socio-cultural potential of civilizations in an inexhaustible and changeable form always. 

Nicole Malhamé Harfouche

Nicole Malhamé Harfouche

Nicole Malhamé Harfouche, a professional fine artist, is Director of the School of Fine  Arts at the Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (University of Balamand) since 1985. She is also an art critic at the “Revue du Liban” since 1976.  She chaired the “Dar El Fan” art centre from 1970 to 1975, and was elected Vice-President of the “Association of Painters and Sculpture Lebanese Artists” from 1982 till 1992. Since 1992, she is a shareholder member of the Salon d’Automne – Paris. 

Nicole Malhamé Harfouche has organised personal exhibitions of her works and also took part to art fairs, collective exhibitions and biennales nationally as well as internationally : Biennale of Sao Paolo, Salon des Indépendants- Paris, Salon d’Automne – Paris, Inter Arab exhibition – Morocco-Kuwait-Abu Dhabi, Salon de la Jeune Peinture – Paris, International exhibition – Greece, Biennale of Charja, Biennale of Lattaquieh, Exposition collective de peintres libanais – Riad.

Her work is published in the books « Un siècle d’art moderne » (edited by Denoël) and « art contemporain » edited at the occasion of the “Centenaire du Salon des Indépendants”, Paris.